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Follow the Money: Forensic Accounting and Guideline Income in Family Law

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Substantive: 0.5
30 minutes
Published
2026
Presenter(s)
Evan Corey
Jean-Charles Plante
Source
County of Carleton Law Association (CCLA)
Provider
CPDOnline.ca
Language
English
Length
30 minutes
Price
$139.00 plus tax
35th Annual CCLA Institute of Family Law Conference
Includes Handouts

This presentation helps family lawyers turn common client suspicions into focused, supportable financial issues by showing when forensic accounting can assist with guideline income, hidden or depleted assets, personal expenses run through a business, lifestyle discrepancy, and source and use of funds analysis. It ties that practical work to the governing disclosure framework, emphasizing the immediate and ongoing duty to disclose financial information, the income earner’s burden to establish income, and the need to assess any request for added disclosure or expert work through relevance and proportionality rather than asking for everything. It is especially useful in helping counsel decide whether an expert is needed, what kind of retainer makes sense, what records should be requested, and how to approach business income, related party payments, dividends, cash sales, and corporate expenses with a disciplined, cost conscious, phased strategy that can strengthen advice, settlement positions, and trial preparation.

Presenters

Evan Corey

Evan is a senior associate specializing in family law matters. Evan has worked on family law files at all levels of court, including the Superior Court of Justice, Divisional Court, Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. He regularly represents clients in alternative dispute resolution and on domestic contracts. He has extensive experience working with other professionals including lawyers in corporate, tax, estate, trust, real estate, immigration, and criminal law, as well as business valuators, accountants, and other experts. Evan’s prior experience includes working at a boutique family law firm in Ottawa and in a national law firm’s family law group.

Jean-Charles Plante

Jean-Charles Plante is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), is Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), and holds a Diploma in Investigative and Forensic Accounting (DIFA) from the University of Toronto, as well as a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mount Allison University. With over 24 years of experience, he has worked in the forensic, dispute, valuation and litigation services teams of large international accounting and boutique firms. He has presented seminars on fraud, forensic accounting, commercial damages, family law, insurance claims and personal injury to legal, fraud and insurance associations and conferences, as well as to law firms, accounting firms, insurance brokers, adjusters, companies and federal government departments. Jean-Charles has provided litigation support on matters before federal and provincial courts, government enquiries, tribunals, commissions, mediations and arbitrations. He has been qualified as an expert witness in forensic accounting and loss quantification, past and future loss of income, present value of future care costs, and income for support purposes in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

 
 

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