In 1990 Park Avenue family practice doctor, G.Peta Carrera, hired his girlfriend, Manhattan lawyer, Christine Anderson, to represent him in a civil suit where he was accused of sexually molesting a patient.
Because they had been together for ten years,
One common thread throughout mankind is the endemic ugliness of racism.
Human history is rife with examples: early Romans subjugated the Jews; slavery was rampant; India’s caste system ostracizes the untouchables; Japanese immigrants to Canada and the United States were
A high-conflict parenting situation led to a 10-day trial where despite the father’s primary care of their young daughter for over three years, custody was reversed and the father, who lived in Regina, was granted parenting time in Saskatoon three
With the introduction of family violence provisions in British Columbia’s Family Law Act in 2013 and the recent amendments to the Divorce Act, domestic violence is no longer a taboo subject in family law proceedings, no longer swept under the
“Marriages between the very old and the very young raise eyebrows and turn heads. In popular culture, a ‘May-December’ marriage invariably provokes the ire of adult children who deem the younger spouse a “gold-digger” and plot to protect their inheritance.”
1. Our Dress Code Does Not Include Stuffed Shirts
2. Talent Mandatory. Suit Optional
3. We Not Only Try Harder, We Try More Often
4. Your Success is Our Success
5. Minds Over Matter
6. We Can’t Protect Your Heart,
In Zhang v. Chen 2024 BCSC 285 Ms. Zhang was successful in defending her husband Chen’s application for an order that the parties’ children, who lived with her in West Vancouver, be permitted to travel to China to spend time
The Eldridge’s met on an archeological dig, married in 1977, and as archeologists worked together in their consulting business, Millenia, for several years. Four children were born and Ms. Eldridge became their primary caregiver while her husband travelled to
It happens in family law. Your client’s husband or wife, enraged at their spouse’s independence, usually marked by their retention of family law counsel, levels unwarranted, abusive attacks on their spouse’s lawyer. It can happen whether the attacking spouse is
On November 23, 2023, Justice Myers presided over a high-conflict estate case, Rai v. Rai 2023 ONSC 7182, where the applicant identified 23 heads of relief, against five parties, including the Public Trustee, and sought orders for the revocation of