Advanced SSAG-ing

Course Chairs
Professor Carol Rogerson — Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Toronto
Professor Rollie Thompson, QC — Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax

Online Moderator
Scott L. Booth — Jenkins Marzban Logan LLP, Vancouver

About the Course Chairs 
Carol Rogerson is a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where she has taught since 1983. She received the SAC-APUS teaching award in 1985, the Mewett teaching award in 2012, and was Associate Dean of the faculty from 1991-1993. She teaches and writes in the areas of family law and constitutional law. She is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education programs for judges and lawyers and has worked with both the federal and provincial governments on issues of family law reform. She and Professor Rollie Thompson from the Schulich School of Law were co-directors of the Justice Canada project that resulted in the development of a national set of Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (2001-2008). Professor Rogerson has been a member of the Executive Council of the International Society of Family Law since 2011. In 2015, she was the recipient of the Carolyn Tuohy award, given by the University of Toronto, to a faculty member whose work has had a significant impact on public policy.

Rollie Thompson has been a professor at Dalhousie Law School (now Schulich School of Law) since 1982 (and a full professor since 1992). He was the Executive Director of Dalhousie Legal Aid Service from 1982-1985 and 1991-1994, the recipient of Dalhousie Law Alumni Association and Dalhousie Law Students Society Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001-2002, and the recipient of the Vincent J. Pottier Award for Exceptional and Outstanding Contribution to Dalhousie Legal Aid Service in 2005. Rollie was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2011. He was also the recipient of the award for Teaching Excellence in the Osgoode Professional LLM in 2016.

Rollie is the editor of the Canadian Family Law Quarterly and co-director (with Professor Carol Rogerson) of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines Project, Department of Justice Canada from 2001-2008. He was on sabbatical in 2006-2007 at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, and taught evidence. He also taught the Child and Spousal Support course at Osgoode Hall Law School, Osgoode Professional Development, Family Law LLM in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2015.

Rollie was an associate at Kitz, Matheson, Green & MacIsaac in Halifax from 1980-1982 and has been a member of the Nova Scotia bar since 1980. Previously, he was a clerk to Justice Brian Dickson, Supreme Court of Canada from 1978-1979. Rollie received an LLB from Dalhousie in 1978 and a BA in Hons. Economics & Political Science from McGill in 1971.

His teaching subjects are family law, evidence, civil procedure, Supreme Court (family division) placement, and clinical law.


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Welcome and Introduction

Professor Carol Rogerson — Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Toronto
Professor Rollie Thompson, QC — Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax

Basic Issues: A Review

• entitlement
• self-sufficiency
• income
• location in the range
• interim support

The Without Child Support Formula

• short, long, and medium marriages
  

Break

The With Child Support Formula: Beyond the Basic Formula

• shared custody
• custodial payor
• adult children and more

Restructuring, Including Lump Sums

Exceptions: All Eleven of Them

High-Income Cases

Agreements: To SSAG or Not to SSAG?

Lunch

Changing Spousal Support: Variation and Review

Changing Incomes, Including Post-Separation Income Increase of the Payor

Retirement

• what’s “early” retirement?
• double-dipping and Boston
• termination of spousal support

Break

Second Families and Subsequent Children

Repartnering: When and Why Support Continues

Retroactive Spousal Support