About the Practice
- Probate Applications and Applications for Administration
- Trusteeship and Guardianship Applications
- Estate and Trust Litigation
- Estate Freezes
- Family Trusts
- Personal Directives
- Powers of Attorney
- Wills
- Estate Planning
Some of the wills we still have in our custody pre-date the province which were drafted when Medicine Hat was part of the Northwest Territories!
Today, estate planning for clients includes drafting Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney, Personal Directives.
We act on behalf of personal representatives who are seeking administration and probate before the Court. We also regularly make applications for trusteeship and guardianship for our clients.
Members of our firm are frequently retained by other law firms to represent personal representatives and beneficiaries involved with estate litigation.
Collaborative Family Law
Our firm offers clients the popular option of collaborative family law, a non-adversarial process that helps you make important decisions throughout the divorce and separation process without going to court.
Collaborative law is a method in which you have input in the decisions that are made. It is often an expedited process and less financially-burdensome process than court proceedings.
Throughout the collaborative process, you and your spouse will each select your own collaborative lawyer and divorce coach. Together, you will select a child specialist and neutral financial specialist.
These professionals will help you address the challenges of your separation and work together to come to an agreement on parenting, finances, property, communication and more.
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Mediation
Our firm offers clients the option of mediation, legal negotiation between disputing parties assisted by a neutral and impartial third party professional. This professional is your mediator.
The purpose of your mediator is to help you and your spouse develop strategies to solve your own challenges in the future.
Mediation is private and confidential. You and your spouse are both clients of the mediator and you will have one or more meetings together with the mediator.
Mediation is not counselling. Rather, the goal of mediation is to help you address the ongoing concerns regarding your separation and divorce.
Further, mediation will help you learn new and effective ways to communicate with your spouse.
Resources:
Govenment of Canada - Mediation
Family Mediation Canada
Mediation - Arbitration
Our firm offers clients the option of mediation-arbitration, an alternative dispute resolution service.
In mediation-arbitration, a third party abitrator reviews evidence and documentation and makes a binding decision.
Mediation-Arbitration is usually more timely, cost-effective, and flexible than going to court. Parties are able to choose the arbitrator.
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Parenting Coordination
We offer our clients parenting coordinatation which is a dispute resolution service specifically for high conflict parents. This service is child-centred and intended to keep the focus on your children's best interests.
The purpose of parenting coordination is to help you and your spouse develop long-term strategies for managing disagreements about your children.
By mutual agreement, you and your spouse can voluntarily hire a parenting coordinator. It can be more cost-effective than each hiring your own lawyer to solve your parenting disputes.
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Information on Enduring Power of AttorneyInformation on Personal Directives
Resource Links:
Alberta Government Vehicle Collision WorksheetAlberta Standard Automobile Policy
Economic Expert Witnesses:
Economica LTDBrown Economic Assessments
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Mediation & Arbitration
Our firm offers clients the option of mediation-arbitration, an alternative dispute resolution service.
In mediation-arbitration, a third party abitrator reviews evidence and documentation and makes a binding decision.
Mediation-Arbitration is usually more timely, cost-effective, and flexible than going to court. Parties are able to choose the arbitrator.
Resources:
Mediation
Our firm offers clients the option of mediation, legal negotiation between disputing parties assisted by a neutral and impartial third party professional. This professional is your mediator.
The purpose of your mediator is to help you and your spouse develop strategies to solve your own challenges in the future.
Mediation is private and confidential. You and your spouse are both clients of the mediator and you will have one or more meetings together with the mediator.
Mediation is not counselling. Rather, the goal of mediation is to help you address the ongoing concerns regarding your separation and divorce.
Further, mediation will help you learn new and effective ways to communicate with your spouse.
Resources:
Collaborative Family Law
Our firm offers clients the popular option of collaborative family law, a non-adversarial process that helps you make important decisions throughout the divorce and separation process without going to court.
Collaborative law is a method in which you have input in the decisions that are made. It is often an expedited process and less financially-burdensome process than court proceedings.
Throughout the collaborative process, you and your spouse will each select your own collaborative lawyer and divorce coach. Together, you will select a child specialist and neutral financial specialist.
These professionals will help you address the challenges of your separation and work together to come to an agreement on parenting, finances, property, communication and more.
Resources:
Parenting Coordination
We offer our clients parenting coordinatation which is a dispute resolution service specifically for high conflict parents. This service is child-centred and intended to keep the focus on your children's best interests.
The purpose of parenting coordination is to help you and your spouse develop long-term strategies for managing disagreements about your children.
By mutual agreement, you and your spouse can voluntarily hire a parenting coordinator. It can be more cost-effective than each hiring your own lawyer to solve your parenting disputes.
Divorce
Our firm aids clients who are seeking a divorce. We help clients solve disputes regarding matrimonial property, finances, spousal support, parenting, child support, and more.
In addition to representing clients throughout court proceedings, our firm offers a variety of alternative dispute resolution services including mediation, collaborative family law, mediation-arbitration, and parenting coordination.
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Property
Our firm helps protect individuals going through separation or divorce in respect to their assets, property, and finances.
Common Law Rights
In Alberta, common law partners are legally known as adult interdependent partners (AIPs).
Parties become AIPs after living together for three years. The three year time requirement becomes shorter if parties enter into an Adult Interdependent Relationship or have a child together.
Couples designated as AIPs have similar but not identical rights to married parties.
Parties interested in further protecting their rights and interests can enter into a cohabitation agreement.
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