Resources for do-it-yourselfers
We don’t recommend representing yourself, but it “is” an education. Some CCC members have done most of their own work, but paid a lawyer to go over it before court. Those who represent themselves report results comparable to using a lawyer, but this mixes the ones who adapt successfully to the steep learning curve with others whose personalities are quite wrong for representing themselves. The worst results seem to come from engaging those with little or no legal training, who have successfully (or claim they have) fought their own case in family court. Successfully handling your own case gives you no qualifications for advising or advocating for someone else.
The Ontario book of civil practice book actually covers all of civil practice, so most of it won’t apply to you. It can be hard to find the parts that do apply, but hang in there. It is petrifying reading, particularly if you were half petrified before you got it. You should re-read tortuous passages until they start to make sense (which is kind of scary, actually). The book comes with a CD containing forms.
If you live in another province or territory, persistently but politely bug the law society to tell you what the equivalent book is (keep asking for someone who knows), or go ask politely at the local university law library (where they usually give quite a lot of help to visitors, by the way, particularly if you graduated in something at the university).
Lawyers often use out-of-date forms successfully, same for forms of different court systems within the province, because the complete information is usually there, and the court doesn’t want to waste its time by bringing something back over a piddling correction. Also, since Courts often view parents (and usually lawyers, too) with contempt, and considers you a helpless fool, they are inclined to process whatever you give them just to get rid of you.
Links for forms, procedures, laws, etc:
http://www.canadalawbook.ca/catalogue_detail.cfm?ProductID=457
http://www.ontariocourtforms.on.ca/english/family/
http://www.canlii.org/en/on/laws/stat/rso-1990-c-f3/latest/rso-1990-c-f3.html