September 29, 2023 – Setting Aside Domestic Contract: A High Bar

“As this court stated recently in Krebs v. Cote, 2021 ONCA 467, 459 D.L.R. (4th) 730, at para. 19, “[p]arties should be encouraged to enter agreements to define their rights and obligations. Jurisprudential shoals upon which an agreement may founder unnecessarily do not advance that goal.”

To this end, under Ontario law, there is a high bar to set aside a domestic contract that complies with the enforceability requirements of s. 55(1) of the FLA: namely, that it is made in writing, signed by the parties and witnessed.”

            Li v. Li, 2021 ONCA 669 (CanLII) at 46-47