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FishingMy daughter, who lives in Yellowknife, recently sent some pictures of the family fishing in the Yellowknife River.  The picture to the right is that of my son-in-law and my granddaughter, who is 3 years old.  Both Father and daughter were enjoying the moment with the expectation of catching a fish on a beautiful summer day.  I…

The Family Law Lawyers at Burgar Rowe are pleased to introduce their new mediation and arbitration services.  Increasingly over the past 10-15 years the courts have been inundated with family law cases.  This has caused a considerable backlog of court cases that have caused countless separating couples needless delays and legal expenses in resolving their…

The matrimonial home is often the single largest assets owned by separating spouses. The Family Law Act (F.L.A.) recognizes and affords special protection to the matrimonial home and addressing both property and possessory entitlements. The legislation does not apply to common law spouses.

The ownership definition as set out in the F.L.A. is very broad…

Facebook has become an everyday word. Who doesn’t have a Facebook account nowadays? We use Facebook to keep in touch with friends, to share photos with family members across the globe and sometimes, we use Facebook to vent. What harm can a little Facebook post cause anyway, right? The answer may surprise you, especially when…

Though each circumstance is unique, the typical course of events following a separation is for the parties to proceed through a dispute resolution process before a divorce is sought and granted. It is usually the dispute resolution process, whether negotiation, mediation, arbitration, collaborative, or court, which requires your time, energy, and money, not the ‘divorce&rsquo…

For separated parents, it may be wise to remember that the stories children tell about what goes on in the other parent’s home may not always be 100% accurate. Events may get distorted and exaggerated when conveyed from a child’s perspective and, when there is conflict, a child may be seeking to please one parent by speaking negatively about the other.
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Thanks to the Internet, we have access to so much information about just about everything. The benefits of information and how quickly we can get it are obvious. So the internet is one tremendous tool and it is truly causing a revolution in education for our entire society. The revolution is affecting every institution from…

On a regular basis I have clients come to me with a rough agreement in hand asking me to draft a Separation Agreement for them. These are the client’s who tell me they are “amicably” separating; they “just want out”, and/or they don’t want to spend a lot of money on legal fees.  Quite often…