BHM Happenings, Elder Law, Events, Information, News, People
On June 23 and 24, 2016, Samantha Rapoport participated in the Continuing Legal Education Wills Drafting Workshop. Sam writes that she was particularly struck by the following passage in the course materials: “It is time to explode the myth that there is such a thing...
Articles, BHM Happenings, Family Law, Feature, Information, News, People
On March 15, 2016, The BC Court of Appeal found in favour of a Brown Henderson Melbye client and made a significant ruling on property rights for common law spouses. The court found that common law spouses who separated before the new family law legislation, The...
Children, Family Law, Information
Children and families have the right to be safe from violence. Courts in British Columbia take family violence issues seriously, whether the violence has a physical or an emotional component. If you have urgent safety concerns, please contact the police. If you have...
BHM Happenings, Family Law, Information, News, People
We are proud to announce that through peer nomination at Best Lawyers, Trudi Brown has been selected as one of the best Family Law lawyers in Canada for 2016! Best Lawyers was first founded in 1983 by two Harvard Law students, Steven Naifeh and the late Gregory White...
BHM Happenings, Events, Family Law, Information, News
Samantha Rapoport is excited to be one of the founding volunteers at the Free Fernwood Family Law Legal Information Clinic, which will be running every Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Fernwood NRG building at 1313 Gladstone Avenue. The clinic will be focused on...
Elder Law, Events, Family Law, Information
Kay attended at “Grey Divorce: the next generation of family law”, a presentation of PBLI (Pacific Business & Law Institute) in Vancouver on October 28, where she learned emerging legal principles affecting people ending relationships later in...
