Written by: Angie Riaño (View All Posts
• View Bio ) Published: November 21, 2016
Categorized: Adoption.
Adoptions in BC
November is National Adoption Awareness Month. For many families in Canada, adoptions are used to grow families and provide children with a nurturing home. There are four ways a child can become available through adoption: (1) adopting [...read full post]
Written by: HHLaw (View All Posts
) Published: November 2, 2016
Categorized: Child Support, Spousal Support.
The question of whether Veteran’s Affairs pensions and Veteran’s Affairs disability pensions received by military personnel for their injuries or disabilities suffered in the line of duty should be characterized as income for child and spousal support claims appears to [...read full post]
Written by: Joseph Broadhurst (View All Posts
• View Bio ) Published: September 29, 2016
Categorized: Commentary, Legislation Analysis, Property Division.
We have previously written about excluded property and then about emerging confusion regarding Excluded Property under the Family Law Act. As a general principle a spouse who brings an asset into a relationship is entitled to keep the value of [...read full post]
Written by: Virginia Richards (View All Posts
• View Bio ) Published: September 14, 2016
Categorized: Common Law, Family Law, Separation.
What does it mean to be a “common-law spouse”?
More than ever couples are living together before marriage, and after a certain period of time, we tend to say that they are “common-law spouses”. But what does it mean to [...read full post]
Written by: Angie Riaño (View All Posts
• View Bio ) Published: September 8, 2016
Categorized: British Columbia, Separation, Tax.
A number of tax issues are raised when you separate or divorce from your spouse. By identifying these issues at an early stage, separating spouses can be better informed, and proactive about organizing the documents and information they will need [...read full post]