Relationships Are Like Flowers- There is a Huge Variety
Relationships are like flowers - there is a huge variety. Like flowers, at first relationships are attractive and colorful and...
top of page
Sea to Sky Law Blog
Search
Sea to Sky Law
- Sep 14
- 1 min
Who Gets To Be The Guardian After the Parents Separate
Recently achieved a significant victory at the Port Coquitlam Family Court for a father, namely an Order that he has sole Guardianship...
8 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Sep 12
- 1 min
Solving Family Disputes by Agreement Before Court
Have you heard about the new BC Provincial Court Family Law Process = the Early Resolution and Case Management process? It is like...
2 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Sep 12
- 1 min
Do I have to share my Assets?
Question: Are family assets divided differently upon separation if you are common-law and not married? Answer: The 1867 British North...
8 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Sep 3
- 1 min
Guardianship
Guardianship under the BC 2013 Family Law Act because if you are not a Guardian then you cannot have Parenting Responsibilities etc; you...
3 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Sep 1
- 1 min
Conflict of Interest?
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...
6 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Aug 31
- 1 min
Custody Orders
QUESTION: If a parent has a custody order but has not exercised the custody leaving the children in the care of non-custodial parents;...
1 view0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Aug 26
- 1 min
What I bring to the marriage....
The emotion in a family separation is usually related to two major subjects - children and money. This post is about the division of...
2 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Aug 25
- 1 min
Am I late?
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...
3 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Aug 24
- 1 min
Retroactivity
NOTE - our Supreme Court of Canada, our highest court in Canada, has clarified the law about retroactive child support and made other...
4 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Aug 22
- 1 min
Family Disputes?
Have you heard about the new BC Provincial Court Family Law Process = the Early Resolution and Case Management process ? This new family...
2 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Aug 14
- 1 min
Burden of Proof?
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...
4 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Aug 12
- 1 min
Is support a right?
On 4 June 2021 the Supreme Court of Canada issued an unanimous decision about how the retroactive reduction of a periodic child support...
4 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Aug 11
- 1 min
Keeping financial secrets?
The failure to promptly provide all financial disclosure in family cases has been described by our Court of Appeal to be a cancer in...
1 view0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Aug 2
- 1 min
Family Court
Two courts are available in BC to resolve family law issues: the Supreme Court which is more traditional and has a greater scope of...
3 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Aug 1
- 1 min
Guardianship
I worked a family law trial of over 40 court appearances over two years. The main issue was about Guardianship under the BC 2013 Family...
5 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Jul 27
- 1 min
Consent Orders
Photo above of the Chilliwack Courthouse, by John Deacon QC, where I attended for a hearing set for all day. I was able to help another...
2 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Jul 25
- 1 min
Ref the Division of Family Assets
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...
1 view0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Jul 21
- 1 min
FAMILY LAW CHANGE
Even though Provincial family law was changed in British Columbia in 2013 by the Family Law Act (FLA), most people do not know about...
3 views0 comments
Sea to Sky Law
- Jul 20
- 1 min
Marital Separation
In a marital separation, money is a hot topic. Between spouses, the issue of money comes up in two ways = whether spousal support, also...
5 views0 comments
bottom of page