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So, you are separating and worried about your children. As a parent you wonder what you can do to help your children as you work things out with your former spouse. What can you do to put your children’s interests first? Here are fi5ve ways...
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On September 29, 2017, lawyers and staff from BHM attended Families Matter, a silent auction fundraiser for the Family Services of Greater Victoria (previously B.C. Families in Transition). Two of our lawyers, Shauna Tucker and Samantha de Wit, are on the Board of...
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The Brown Henderson Melbye team has been very active in the community these past few weeks. On February 24th some of our team members as well as friends and family participated in the Coldest Night of The Year walk to support Our Place Society. Brown Henderson...
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Brown Henderson Melbye has been mentoring students as an employer with the University of Victoria’s Law Co-op program for well over 10 years. In fact, Samantha Rapoport and our current articled student, Kezia Peterson were both former co-op students who...
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Spring is in the air, which means longer days, warmer weather…. tax time! Many of our family law clients have questions for us about how their separation or divorce will affect their income taxes. While our first answer must always be: “talk to your...
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Samantha Rapoport achieves success at the British Columbia Supreme Court for a client seeking to reduce arrears of child support. The reported decision can be read here: http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt/sc/17/23/2017BCSC2390.htm Arrears are unpaid...