What are the elements of the modern family cost rules?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Closner v. Levine, 2019 ONSC 636 (CanLII):

The Court of Appeal, in Serra v. Serra[3], established that that modern family cost rules are designed to foster three fundamental purposes: 1) to partially indemnify successful litigants; 2) to encourage settlement; and 3) to discourage and sanction inappropriate behaviour by litigants.

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