Needing RPRs in Alberta Who needs real property reports in Alberta? It is a question that we get all the time. There is a cost to produce them and to get municipal compliance. Sellers require them for almost every residential real estate transaction that takes place in Alberta. Yet many people do [...]
Legal Help That Can Save Time and Money: We Make Probate Easy Probate can be a very complicated matter for those who have to go through the process. First, it is important to have a good and simple understanding of what probate is and what it means. Of course, probate law can differ [...]
Getting Help With Estate Challenges Estate challenges when executors probate an estate can cause stress, a delay in probate and additional costs to the estate. When a loved one passes away, you may be appointed to be the executor or personal representative of their estate. This means that you must handle the [...]
Security with Certainty: Prenup Contracts Prenuptial Agreement Benefits for Your Marriage Everyone has fire insurance on their home but never expect to have a fire. They have it "just in case". Prenuptial agreements have an undeserved bad reputation. Because these agreements, signed before you marry, stipulate what will happen if you divorce, [...]
Bring Family to Canada with Family Sponsorship: Immigration Canada Bringing Family to Canada: It can be very heartbreaking to have family members countries apart. Many people currently live in Canada without their family because they married a Canadian and moved here, moved to Canada to work while family members stayed behind in [...]
What is Probate? Probate a will: If you have heard of probate, you have probably heard that it is a pain, that is it expensive, that it takes a long time, and that it is a complicated process. While some of those descriptions may be apt, they do not really tell you what [...]
Anti Spam Laws: Protection or Prison? CASL Requirements: Protect Canadians? Problem for Business? You Decide Specific CASL requirements: Our followers have asked for more Canadian Anti Spam Legislation information. You asked for easy to understand language. In our last article in our CASL series, we outlined the government's rationale behind the new CASL [...]
Canada's New Anti Spam Laws The Canadian Government is on the verge of implementing new anti spam legislation regulating commercial electronic communications. Commonly referred to as Canada's Anti-Spam Law, or CASL, this legislation will come into force on July 1, 2014. The scope of the new laws are far-reaching, and the penalty provisions [...]
Child Mobility After Divorce Child mobility involves the ability of a parent to move away from the other patent after divorce. Because moving with children can be important, the child mobility rights lawyers at Kahane Law Office are often asked: "Now that I'm separated, can I move?" The First Steps to Moving [...]
Valid Will Scratched on Farm Tractor As lawyers we see many different ways that people "do it yourself" in terms of legal documents. This is a situation that you do not see too often. In 1948 a tractor fender with 16 words scratched into it was filed with the Surrogate Court in Saskatchewan. [...]