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- Category: Adoption
- Category: Agreements
- No Quarantine for Kids Coming back from Parenting Time Outside of Canada!
- What to do about non-disclosure in BC family law matter
- Rushing to resolution – some pitfalls you need to be aware of
- Family law agreements now may reduce stress later
- Why prenuptial agreements are good for both of you.
- Why do I need a lawyer for a separation agreement if my ex and I have already agreed on everything?
- What you need to know about Marriage, Prenuptial and Co-habitation Agreements
- Should you have a “baby making” contract? A look into Fertility Law and Assisted Reproductive Technologies.
- The Worth of Family Agreements: Cohabitation, Pre-nuptial, and Separation Agreements
- Weekly Family Law Roundup #4
- What is the impact of the new Family Law Act on a Separation Agreement under the Family Relations Act?
- Agreements are meant to be followed
- Category: Alberta
- Documents Important in Divorce Proceedings, Part II
- Should I stay or can I go now? An update on parental mobility
- Do I have to pay more spousal support if I make more money after separation?
- Estate planning: Who inherits from you if you get divorced?
- Are Veteran’s Affairs Pensions considered Income for Child and Spousal Support?
- Category: Announcement
- Category: Appeals
- Category: Assisted Reproduction
- Category: Bankruptcy
- Category: British Columbia
- Judicial Case Conferences (JCCs) in Family Law Proceedings: What You Need to Know
- Form 8 Financial Statements – A step-by-step overview.
- Top Tips for Form 8 Financial Statements
- Disclosure and Non-Disclosure: A Vital Factor in Family Law
- An Intersection between Tax Issues and Separation or Divorce
- Recent BC Court Form Amendments: Disclosure in Litigation Confidential As Between Parties
- The Proof of Abuse – The Role of Recording
- Weekly Family Law Roundup #3
- Category: Case Analysis
- You thought you were done? Supreme Court of Canada Orders that Historical Child Support is Payable for Independent Adult Child
- In High Net Worth Asset Division Cases: Is Spousal Support Still Payable?
- Spousal Support Means, Needs, and Circumstances Considerations
- Weekly Family Law Roundup #2
- Weekly Family Law Roundup #1
- Creative Applications: Using the Family Law Act to try to chase away your child’s date
- Non-Payment of Child Support: Is it Family Violence?
- The Court as Custodial Parent?
- What does it take to Separate?
- What If No One Follows An Order?
- Investing in Divorce? Not here.
- Fallout from a No-Show
- Maintenance on the Death of a Party
- Following the Guidelines
- Review Hearing vs. Variation of an Order for support
- Joining Provincial and Supreme Court actions
- Expert Report Critiques
- Don’t Wait Too Long, Part II
- Early Retirement – What Happens to Spousal Support?
- Child Maintenance Claims: Can a Payor Claim Legal Fees as a Tax Deduction?
- Dividing the Grape Juice
- This Post is not Privileged
- Recent Cases on Costs
- Mobility Law Update
- Reassessment of Trial Decisions
- Category: Child Abduction
- Category: Child Support
- I’ve Been Laid Off. Now What?: Child and Spousal Support in the Time of COVID-19
- Tinder Surprises – Support Obligations and Parenting Rights
- Reducing Your Child Support Obligations Upon Loss of Employment in Alberta
- Child Support and Undue Hardship
- Weekly Family Law Roundup #5
- Children of Parents on Social Assistance Finally Able to Keep their Child Support
- Paternity Testing and DNA Testing in Divorce and Family Law in British Columbia
- BC Government Seriously Considers Not Taking Money from Children
- How do I obtain a support order if my former spouse has moved to another jurisdiction?
- BC Court Justice Orders 7 Day Imprisonment for Failure to Pay Support
- British Columbia Claws Back Child Maintenance from Children
- What is FMEP and is it for me?
- Maintaining Guideline Maintenance in Wealthy Families
- It’s Income Tax Time: Deduction of Legal Fees
- New 2012 Child Support Guideline Tables: Update Your Payments!
- New Child Support Guideline Tables
- Post-Secondary Education Costs
- Financial Statement Assumptions
- What to do about non-disclosure
- Category: Children's Issues
- Supervised Parenting Time or Supervised Access
- Children’s issues: Raising kids with trust instead of fear
- Children’s issues: Parents who date after divorce
- Children’s issues: When is it OK to leave a child unattended?
- Children’s issues: Abuse cases expected to rise amid pandemic
- Children’s issues: Funding reworked for Child Advocacy Centres
- Children’s issues: Should kids stay with non-Indigenous family?
- Children’s issues: Reporting child abuse, neglect in Alberta
- Children’s issues: Suggested policies that may end child poverty
- Children’s issues: Chosen families in the LGBTQ realm
- Children’s issues: Parental selfies help kids get through divorce
- Alberta children’s issues: Fight over parents’ rights and GSAs
- Children’s issues: Edmonton Police Service and child protection
- Children’s issues: When bullying becomes a nasty problem
- Children’s issues: Kids entitled to same human rights as adults
- Children’s issues: UN convention protects children’s rights
- Children’s issues: Too many delays for autism diagnoses
- Children’s issues: The important role of stepmothers
- Children’s issues: Funds earmarked to reduce poverty rates
- Children’s issues: Children’s rights during intervention
- Children’s issues: Children’s rights when parents aren’t married
- Children’s issues: What’s in a name?
- Children’s issues: School boards want seclusion rooms ban lifted
- Children’s issues: Child gets non-gender-specific health card
- Children’s issues: An unwilling father and child support
- Children’s issues: When parental fighting affects kids adversely
- How Alberta teachers can help with children’s issues in divorce
- Children’s issues: Dealing with parental alienation
- Children’s issues: What does best interests really mean?
- Preteens and Divorce
- Parenting Plans: Holidays and Special Occasions
- Teenagers and Divorce
- Parenting Plans: Living Arrangements and Afterschool Schedules.
- 3 ways parents can make custody exchanges easier
- Does my child’s preference affect custody and other legal issues?
- What factors affect calculation of child support?
- Can we change our child support or custody orders?
- Parents: Don’t make these mistakes if you relocate after divorce
- What happens if I don’t pay child support?
- Category: Supervision
- Category: Commentary
- Category: Common Law
- Category: Contact
- Category: Contracts
- Category: Costs
- Category: COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
- COVID-19 Safety Information and Meeting Protocols In Light of Omicron Variant
- COVID-19 Safety Information and Meeting Protocols
- British Columbia Supreme Court is Slowly Adapting to the COVID-19 Crisis but with Conditions
- Should COVID-19 concerns force you to change your parenting agreement?
- Frontline Workers and Parenting Time Considerations
- Update on COVID-19
- How COVID-19 is Affecting Family Law in British Columbia
- Starting Your Family Claim During COVID-19
- Urgent Matters in BC Family Law Cases
- The Court System Must Adapt to the Covid-19 Crisis
- Urgent Court Applications amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Shared Parenting during COVID – 19: Direction from the Courts
- Category: Custody and Access
- Do Children get a Voice in Family Proceedings?
- Summer Holidays and Parenting Time
- Parenting during separation and divorce. How do courts decide parenting time?
- Parenting over the holidays: Your rights and what’s right for your children
- 5 Tips to Making Shared Custody Work: A Primer
- Who Should Hire a Child Custody Lawyer in Toronto?
- Views of the Child Reports
- Halloween Access
- Who will care for my children when I’m gone?
- Interim Custody and Status Quo
- To Skype or not to Skype?
- Category: Debt
- Category: Dispute Resolution
- Category: Division of Property
- Uncovering hidden assets during a divorce
- Tips for resolving pet issues that dog parties during divorce
- Dos and don’ts of dividing digital property in a divorce
- Parties to consider consulting during a complex divorce
- Deciding how to divide personal property in a divorce
- How do we divide property in a British Columbia divorce?
- Dividing Canadian Pension Plans After A Divorce
- Category: Divorce
- Don’t forget about dividing your debts in divorce
- What is a separation?
- How do we address debt during a divorce?
- Handling the Holidays as a Separated or Divorced Parent
- Ten Documents You Should Keep Close When You’re Getting A Divorce, Part I
- Healthy Mind, Healthy Divorce
- The Importance of Being Honest
- Our Best Toronto Divorce Lawyer Advice, Part 1
- The Difference Between a Paralegal and a Divorce Attorney in Toronto
- Divorce Now Available for Non-Resident Same-Sex Couples
- The Importance of Pleading Certificates of Pending Litigation
- Divorce in Canada for Foreign Residents
- Divorce Ads
- Getting Married, Separated, or Divorced? Time to think about your will.
- Category: Edmonton
- Category: Estate Planning
- Category: Family Court
- Category: Family Law
- Family law: Avoiding common mistakes when separating, divorcing
- Family law: Divorce can be both sad and sublime
- Family law: The issues facing blended families
- Family law: Can a separation agreement move into divorce?
- Family law: The importance of grandparents, bonus grandparents
- Family law: Co-parenting effectively after divorce
- Family law: Divorce can actually be a positive move forward
- Can a parent move children with custody access orders in place?
- Family law: Will a protection order really protect you?
- Family law: Avoiding parental mistakes during a divorce
- Divorce grief is a natural part of this family law process
- Family law: Court of appeal lets teen continue hormone therapy
- How to Prepare for your Initial Consultation with a Family Law Lawyer
- Family law: Avoid mistakes that could cost you in a divorce
- Family law: Family is family even when parents get divorced
- Family law: Is an amicable divorce really possible?
- Family law: Psychologist apologizes for unfair opinion
- Family law: Some vaccination debates end up in court
- Family law: Do therapists ever suggest divorce?
- You don’t have to end your marriage in a court battle
- Parenting plans a challenging part of family law
- Family law: Financial duties of unmarried parents to their kids
- Family law: When a minor child causes property damage
- Family law: Child support payors find MEP system difficult
- Family law: Are child support payments tax deductible?
- Family law: Divorce and finances at retirement age
- Family law: Helping kids the first Christmas after divorce
- British Columbia family law: When a child’s paternity is an issue
- Family law: When a woman wants to keep her married name
- Family law: Protecting an inheritance during a divorce
- Family law: Parental abduction is a criminal offence
- Family law: Parental alienation and its effects on children
- Family law: Social worker claims province trying to drive her out
- Family law: January sees increased levels of divorce filings
- Family law: Length of spousal support payments can be perplexing
- Family law: Saying I do to a marriage contract
- Family law: There are financial options in a grey divorce
- Family law: Options for couples thinking about divorce
- Family law: Separated Alberta couple duke it out over debts
- Alberta family law: Maintaining contact with your grandchildren
- Family law: Some frequent flyer parents tying up family court
- Alberta family law: When it’s all in a name
- Family law: Varying a child support order in British Columbia
- Family law: Divorcing couples seeking ways other than court
- Family law: When a payee doesn’t want to work
- Family law: More grandparents are raising their grandchildren
- British Columbia family law: The notice of attachment form
- Alberta family law: The costs of a contentious divorce
- Family law: Father reunited with child after abduction situation
- Family law: Helping autistic children through the divorce process
- Family law: Self-representation could be harder on the pocketbook
- Family law: Stepparenting children in British Columbia
- Family law: How a business can be on the hook for spousal payment
- Family law: Raising healthy children after divorce
- Family law: Millions at stake in British Columbia divorce battle
- Family law: The link between divorce and health
- Family law: Negotiating a settlement with a bullying partner
- Family law: Man in marriage of convenience faces citizenship woes
- Date of marital separation important under Alberta family law
- Family law: The first things to do when divorce is on the horizon
- When family law and estate planning law cross paths
- Family law: Understanding issues around spousal support
- Family law: Giving kids a voice in parenting coordination
- Will my social media account affect my divorce?
- Understanding guardianship in British Columbia
- How is parentage determined in British Columbia?
- Collaborative Law Options in Divorce
- Prenuptial Agreements Are Proactive for Your Marriage
- Is a collaborative divorce a good fit?
- What are the legal requirements to divorce in Alberta?
- Post-separation income increases could affect support
- Is it possible to change or cancel spousal support payments?
- Fighting the urge to fight dirty during divorce
- Alberta couples: 3 things to know about cohabitation agreements
- Co-parenting and conflict: Tips for keeping the peace
- 4 benefits of a collaborative divorce
- Managing the details of divorce: A surprising challenge
- When a prenuptial agreement may be set aside
- Avoid disputes with a solid parenting plan
- Cutting corners in your divorce can have costly consequences
- Four social media mistakes to avoid if you are divorcing
- Will I receive spousal support if I get divorced?
- Unmarried? You can still take steps to protect your property
- Religious Influences On Children After A Divorce Or Separation
- Six Tips For Separated Couples For The Holiday Season
- Bill 28 Will Change Property Division And Child Support Rules
- What Income is used for Child and Spousal support purposes?
- #Instaregret Why you should listen to your divorce lawyer about posting on social media
- 8 Tips from your Divorce Lawyer for a Smooth Holiday Season this year
- Who Gets To Keep The Family Pet After A Divorce?
- Do grandparents have rights to see their grandchildren?
- Collaborative Divorce Offers Civility For Families
- Examinations for Discovery: What are They and how are They Used in Family Law?
- Vancouver Supreme Court to Simplify Process of Getting Hearing Dates for Lengthy Chambers Applications
- Avoid Joint Tenancy?: Property Division in British Columbia Becomes Less Clear
- Starting a Family Law Action in Ontario
- Alcoholism and Support
- Mobility in Family Law Part 3
- Mobility in Family Law Part 2
- Mobility in Family Law – Part 1
- Teacher Strike Supplement – Temporary Education Support for Parents
- Category: Finances
- Category: Guardianship
- Category: Income
- Category: Initial Information
- Category: Legislation Analysis
- Category: Maintenance
- Category: Mediation
- Category: Mental Wellness
- Category: Mobility
- Category: Ontario
- Category: Parenting
- Category: Parenting Time
- Category: Pensions
- Category: Prenuptial Agreements
- Category: Procedure
- Category: Property Division
- Division of property: Wife shares pension despite bankruptcy
- Understanding division of property rules in divorce
- Division of property: Who gets Fido or Fluffy after divorce?
- Division of property: Being prepared in the event of divorce
- Division of property: Your vehicle or mine?
- New law to govern division of property of common law couples
- Division of property inclusions, exclusions in British Columbia
- Alberta Common-Law Relationships and Separation
- What is family property?
- How BC courts treat an Investment Advisor’s (IA) book of business
- Short Relationship? Don’t count on getting half.
- New Directions for Property Division in British Columbia
- Should I pay or should he owe now?
- Category: Same Sex Issues
- Category: Separation
- Category: Spousal Support
- Category: Tax
- Category: Uncategorised
- Shared Parenting during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Family law agreements reduce conflict when relationships end
- Relocation efforts may cause legal entanglements
- Spousal support is not automatic after divorce
- What to do with jointly-held real estate after a breakup
- Seeking permanent custody of a child
- How will a breakup affect your finances?
- Are you eligible for spousal support?
- What is an annulment?
- Guardianship after divorce and beyond
- Excited about buying a house
- Family law agreements are helpful in many situations
- Plan carefully if you want to relocate with your children
- Your options for the family home during a breakup
- Family law: Parental gifts may affect spousal support payments
- Grounds for divorce in Alberta
- Even court-ordered child support is not set in stone
- Responding when your ex applies for an ISO
- Assets that can have a surprising impact on property division
- Grey Divorces: Paying Spousal Support In Your Golden Years
- Alex R. Chan joins Henderson Heinrichs LLP in the Vancouver office
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- Category: Vancouver
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