Corporations - THE FOUR HATS YOU WEAR
If you are an incorporated small business, did you know you wear four hats, as the saying goes? You fill four equally important roles to...
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- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Have you ever heard of Nidus.ca ?
It is a British Columbia web site for personal planning that started in 1995 to help explain the new personal planning document called a...
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Sea to Sky Law
- 6 days ago
- 1 min
The importance of Financial Disclosure in Family Law
The failure to promptly provide all financial disclosure in family cases has been described by our Court of Appeal to be a cancer in...
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Sea to Sky Law
- May 26
- 1 min
Builders Lien
Builders Lien - leverage created by legislation to allow several categories of contributors to the land, including workers and material...
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Sea to Sky Law
- May 24
- 1 min
WHY is it so difficult to just phone a lawyer for a quick discussion ?
First, like your dentist and GP, your lawyer is busy helping others. Appointments are mutually beneficial because you get the lawyer's...
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Sea to Sky Law
- May 22
- 1 min
Do you know what the BC CRT (civil resolution tribunal) can do for you?
Tribunals have existed for years to provide specialized and hopefully more efficient thus cheaper resolution of many different types of...
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Sea to Sky Law
- May 20
- 1 min
CHILD SUPPORT ARREARS
Did you know that child support, since it is the right of the child, is a priority for the courts to calculate and enforce. Further, FMEP...
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Sea to Sky Law
- May 18
- 1 min
READ and understand BEFORE YOU SIGN !
The recent BC decision on 25 April 2022 enforced the usual clause in a real estate contract that the realtor commission is payable even...
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Sea to Sky Law
- May 16
- 1 min
SAVE MONEY WITH LEGAL ADVICE
Two newspaper articles that were in the Vancouver Sun about two different legal claims being dismissed emphasize the need for good legal...
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Sea to Sky Law
- May 14
- 1 min
To be or not to be - an Executor?
If a person has been named in a Will to administer an Estate then men are called an Executor and women Executrix. There can be more than...
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Sea to Sky Law
- May 12
- 1 min
I have a friend who is intellectually disabled, If I am unable to help her can a lawyer?
I have a friend who is intellectually disabled. She reads at about a second-grade level. If I am unable to help her can a lawyer? The...
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Sea to Sky Law
- May 10
- 1 min
CHILD CUSTODY QUESTION
QUESTION - If a parent has sole custody but has not exercised the custody leaving the children in the care of non-custodial parents; and...
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Sea to Sky Law
- Apr 29
- 1 min
What does it mean when a lawyer says there is a conflict of interest? Why do I have to show ID ?
What does it mean when a lawyer says there is a conflict of interest? Why do I have to show ID and retain a lawyer before getting my...
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Sea to Sky Law
- Apr 12
- 1 min
Ref the Division of Family Assets in British Columbia under the 2013 Family Law Act (FLA)
Many people know that the 2013 FLA has a 50/50 division of family assets as the starting point then one can argue whether half would be...
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Sea to Sky Law
- Apr 8
- 1 min
SOLVING ESTATE DISPUTES
After death the documents such as your Power of Attorney stop giving any authority thus you need to make a Will to state your decisions...
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Sea to Sky Law
- Apr 6
- 1 min
Corporate REQUIREMENTS
Many people do not know that - in Western Law - there are two kinds of people on the planet = humans and corporations who have many of...
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Sea to Sky Law
- Apr 3
- 1 min
UNbundled Legal Services
Have you heard of UNbundled legal services ? Traditionally you retain a professional to do everything they think is best for you whether...
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Sea to Sky Law
- Mar 31
- 1 min
PLANNING WITH GOOD ADVICE CHEAPER THAN FIXING MISTAKES
Our Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), as shown above in one of its archive photos, released its decision cited as 2021 SCC 49 dismissing an...
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Sea to Sky Law
- Mar 29
- 1 min
The use of wigs and gowns by judges and lawyers in British Columbia
In Britain both lawyers and judges can still wear wigs as well as robes. In British Columbia, we do not wear wigs, and starting November...
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Sea to Sky Law
- Mar 27
- 2 min
COMMON LAW MARRIAGE versus formal Government Licenced Marriage
Statistics Canada provides that in 2017 over 70% of Canadians between the age of 25 to 64 had a partner and that the number in 2016 who...
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