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Summer can be a welcome break from the school-year routine. For separated parents in Vancouver and across British Columbia, it can also bring new scheduling questions. Summer camps, vacations, childcare gaps, family visits, and travel plans can all place pressure on an existing parenting arrangement … Read more »

Estate disputes often arise where grief, caregiving, property, and long-standing family tensions intersect. These disputes can become especially complex when a will is made late in life, the will-maker has cognitive impairment, and the document leaves most or all of the estate to one side of the fam … Read more »

Separation can place children at the centre of difficult decisions about parenting time, parental responsibilities, relocation, schooling, safety, and stability. In many Vancouver family law matters, parents may disagree not only about what should happen, but about what the children want, need, or a … Read more »

In our first blog in this 2-part series on the recent Supreme Court of British Columbia case of M.P. v. P.P. and its appeal before the British Columbia Court of Appeal, Paletar v. Paletar, we reviewed the case’s discussion of complex property division issues. In this second blog, we discuss the ot … Read more »

When a marriage or marriage-like relationship ends in British Columbia, the same questions tend to surface for almost every separating spouse: Who keeps the family home? What happens to assets one spouse owned before the relationship began? How is support calculated when one party earns more than th … Read more »