Bigamy

• Prominent Ontario lawyer sentenced to 6 months house arrest for bigamy, forging divorce documents

  James Cooper Morton, who pleaded guilty to the offences in April, has also been ordered to have no contact with Jennifer Packwood for six months.

  Crime

  Sep 11, 2019
  
• Newmarket justice of the peace says she was betrayed by lawyer husband, convicted bigamist

  Rhonda Shousterman, a justice of the peace at the Newmarket courthouse, delivered an emotional 20-minute victim impact statement at her husband James Morton’s sentencing hearing in the very courthouse where Shousterman sits on the bench.

  Crime

  Jul 24, 2019
  
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• Prominent Ontario lawyer pleads guilty to bigamy, forging divorce documents

  James Cooper Morton stood up in a Newmarket courtroom on Friday and admitted he married Jennifer Packwood, a law clerk from the office where he worked in Hamilton, despite the fact he was still married to his wife, Justice of the Peace Rhonda Shousterman.

  Crime

  Apr 26, 2019
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• Three adults in polyamorous relationship declared legal parents of child

  Polyamorous relationships are legal in Canada, unlike bigamy and polygamy, which involve people in two or more marriages.

  Canada

  Jun 14, 2018