Written by: HHLaw (View All Posts
) Published: October 8, 2020
Categorized: COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
After closing the doors of our offices in downtown Vancouver on March 16, 2020 due to COVID-19, and requiring our lawyers and support staff to work from home, some of us were able to return on May 19, 2020, [...read full post]
Written by: Alex Chan (View All Posts
) Published: September 24, 2020
Categorized: Case Analysis, Child Support, Uncategorised.
Tags: Adult Child, Child Support, Retroactive, SCC, Supreme Court of Canada.
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Canada in Michel v. Graydon, 2020 SCC 24, unanimously decided that Mr. Graydon was obligated to pay a lump sum of retroactive child support in the amount of $23,000 for [...read full post]
Written by: Alex Chan (View All Posts
) Published: June 26, 2020
Categorized: Agreements, British Columbia, Child Support, Contracts, Costs, Division of Property, Property Division, Vancouver.
How do you respond to a non-disclosing party?
In November 2009, we posted an article on what you can do when the other side won’t give you the documents you need to determine their income. In that article, we referred [...read full post]
Written by: Kevin Heinrichs (View All Posts
• View Bio ) Published: June 16, 2020
Categorized: Children's Issues, Custody and Access, Parenting Time, Supervision.
Tags: Supervised Access; Supervised Parenting Time; Supervision; Custody; Access;.
Under normal circumstances, parents are able to decide who will be with them when they spend time with their children. Sometimes, though, in very rare and exceptional circumstances, courts can require that a parent’s time with his or her children [...read full post]
Written by: Alex Chan (View All Posts
) Published: May 25, 2020
Categorized: Agreements, British Columbia, Commentary, Contracts, Dispute Resolution, Division of Property, Divorce, Family Law, Procedure, Property Division, Separation, Vancouver.
“I just want to get it over with”: Rushing to sign a separation agreement can be costly
Divorce and common law separations can be complicated. It can take more time and cost more money than you expect, which is why [...read full post]