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It was Collaborative Law’s unique feature of not permitting the lawyers to take the case to court in the face of an impasse that saved a family from disaster.

A term filled with positive memories and accomplishments.

If insufficient financial disclosure is the “cancer” of family law, the “heart disease” of our field at present is the frequency with which attacks on marriage contracts and cohabitation agreements are launched – and succeed.

We all know that if our client is charged with a criminal offence they should immediately retain a criminal lawyer. But what about the spouse’s need to retain criminal counsel, particularly if the parties were separated but living in the same home at the time of the offence.

R. v Armitage reminds everyone that we lawyers and judges really care about our clients.

This article reviews the problems imposed by bankruptcy on an equalization claim where a principal asset of the bankrupt spouse is a pension or RRSP.