Ontario
Simple (sole/uncontested or joint*) Divorce:
All simple/uncontested or joint Ontario divorce forms are prepared for you
and are filed with the appropriate court. Also included is free
commissioning of the required affidavits (with our lawyer in
Toronto).
*A joint divorce requires both spouses to sign all of the
divorce paperwork. A sole/uncontested divorce
is when one spouse files the divorce and the other spouse is
served with copy after it is filed. See
this for more info.
$350
Simple (sole/uncontested or joint) Divorce filed in the City of Toronto*
*Either you or your spouse
must live in the City of Toronto (incl. Etobicoke, York, East
York, North York & Scarborough.) If neither of you lives in
Toronto, the "Ontario" pricing applies)
$400 for
anywhere else in Ontario -
Including the surrounding GTA regions
of Halton, Peel, York and Durham.
Note: If you live in
St. Catharines or Kitchener, please read
this before proceeding.
The Court's
mandatory fees**See misc. fees below.
$447 in mandatory court fees
(does not include the $19 fee that the court charges for the optional
divorce certificate
which is required when you re-marry in the future. You will pay
this fee directly to the court with your mail-in divorce
certificate request form)
Court Fee Waiver
-
You may be eligible
for a waiver of all but $10 of the court's fees if you have very low income and own very
few assets. Click here for
more information. We charge $25 to prepare and
process the required forms.
CAUTION
When comparing prices with other providers, be sure to insist on
getting their total, start-to-finish price. Other services often
add undisclosed 'disbursements' than may bring their advertised
total to much higher than you were expecting. The only
disbursements that we pass along are the mandatory court filing
fees.
Total for a
Toronto simple with cooperative spouse
or a joint divorce:
$814.50
(not including
the $19 per
optional divorce certificate required when you re-marry in the
future)
Optional Separation
Agreement: $300. Please read
this.
How does this all work? What do you have to do? Click here to
find out.
EXTRAS - Please
read this so you are not surprised by any extra fees:
Note: There
are no 'hidden' fees. In the vast majority of cases, if either
party lives in the City of Toronto, and your spouse is co-operative, your
divorce will cost a total of $814.50.
Don't know
where your spouse is?
- Click here for
a description of the process and fees.
Divorce based on Adultery
- Add $50.
You, the
applicant, reside outside of
Ontario - Add
$50.
Serving Your Spouse - Unless the
court orders otherwise, your spouse must be given a copy of the
Application for divorce after it is filed with the court.
By mail - FREE: This is included in the
regular fee. Your spouse must sign &
mail back an acknowledgement of service post card.
In Person - if your spouse is not cooperative with
service by mail, or if you just prefer that he/she is served in
person, you must arrange for personal service (either by
you, a friend or by a professional process server) at your own
expense.
Swearing
Affidavits
At least one
affidavit must be sworn for your divorce - the affidavit for
divorce. If you personally serve your spouse with a copy of the
filed application for divorce (as opposed to us serving him or
her by mail), you will have to swear an affidavit of service. If
you are eligible for a court fee waiver, the fee waiver request
form must be sworn. In each case, the 'swearing' occurs in the
presence of a commissioner of oaths (lawyer, notary public,
justice of the peace, court clerk, etc.).
Our
commissioner of oaths is located at Yonge & St. Clair in
Toronto. So, if you live outside of the GTA, you'll have
to cover the cost have having your affidavit(s) sworn locally -
or you can have it commissioned for free at many government
offices. Instructions will be provided.
If you are filing a joint
divorce, and you require separate appointments for each spouse,
there is an additional fee of $50.
Misc.
Fees
If your divorce forms are drafted in accordance with your
answers to the intake form, and if you then decide for whatever
reason that a major change is required that then requires
re-drafting of the divorce forms (e.g. you decide to
change from a joint divorce to a sole/uncontested divorce or vice versa,
etc.), you may be charged $25 to re-draft the forms. (This does not apply
to the separation agreement.) This charge is almost never levied, however the
right to do so is reserved.
'Supplemental filing fees'
range from $50 to $125: Please read
this page.
There is a fee of $25 for any cheques that
are not honoured due to insufficient funds, etc.
**The court's fees of $167 and $280 assume cash or cash-equivalent payments.
There are additional processing and handling fees for 'non-cash equivalent'
court fee payments.
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provided by or through
ezDivorce
are (1) the completion and filing of the forms required to
obtain a simple divorce in Ontario, Canada, and (2) the
completion of basic separation agreement templates - in each
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