Submission
This is a story about a marriage breakdown and the difficulties facing primarily women in protecting themselves and in collecting support payments under the Ontario justice system.
This is a story about justice delayed, justice denied, and how the justice system failed to level the playing field.
Every day a woman is demoralized in not being able to collect on support orders.
Every day in Canada a woman is subjected to ongoing abuse with her partner with minimal assistance through the legal system.
This story is typical of a woman’s plight going through a legal system where the parties have lost faith and face the dilemma of giving up or taking the law into their own hands.
Franklyn Harris Bennett
He is the principal of his own boutique law firm, Bennett Bankruptcy Law, in Toronto, and bankruptcy counsel to other law firms. He is well-known in Ontario and nationally. His practice is focused on all facets of creditor and debtor law, asset protection, enforcement of judgments, receivership, bankruptcy, and restructuring. He advises debtors, creditors, trustees, and monitors.
For many years, he was the Head of Section and Lecturer for the Ontario Bar Admission Course on Creditors’ and Debtors’ Rights and Remedies, Lecturer in other Bar Admission Courses including Family Law and Real Estate, the past Chair of the both the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Section of the Canadian Bar Association, National and Ontario, a veteran council member of the Ontario Bar Association and member of several committees, a former member of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Advisory Committee to Industry Canada, a frequent lecturer and author of several books and articles on creditor and debtor topics. He has received honours from the Law Society and from the Bar Associations.
