Wacky Wednesday: Fast-food Restaurants Getting Sued... Surprised? Fast-Food: Litigation Waiting To Happen? How often do you head out for fast food? Do you grab some during lunch, or do you have it for dinner on those nights that you just can't bear cooking? Everyone knows the big fast food places, such as McDonald's, [...]
Wacky Wednesday: Radio Stations Pranks That Led to Lawsuits Lawsuits Against Radio Stations (and A Restaurant) Radio stations have been the perpetrators of some funny bits and classic pranks over the years. However, they can sometimes go too far. Going to far on a prank has gotten them in legal trouble on more [...]
Random Act of Cookie Kindness Leads to Lawsuit Random Act Of Kindness Turns Bitter-Sweet: Fresh Baked Cookies For Neighbour Sometimes, doing something nice brings nothing but trouble. That's the unfortunate lesson learned by two teen girls in Durango, CO in 2005. The girls, Taylor Ostergaard (who was 17 at the time) and Lindsey [...]
BEWARE: Risks of Joint Tenants to Avoid Probate Adding a Name to Land Title or Bank Accounts: Joint Tenants for Avoiding Probate Bank accounts and land can be both be owned as joint tenants or as tenants in common in Alberta. Joint tenants own the land equally. In Alberta, this means there is [...]
Fired or Laid Off? Child Support Payments May be Reduced Child Support Payments And The Loss Of Employment In these uncertain economic times, the risk of being laid-off (or fired, unemployed, or otherwise losing your job) is at the forefront of many people's minds. This stress is compounded by the uncertainty of [...]
Severance Packages 101: When Facing Job Cuts Protect Yourself with a Flat Rate Severance Package Review The employment law & severance package review legal group at Kahane Law Office in Calgary, Alberta has been receiving a high volume of calls from people who have lost their job to recent job cuts. When [...]
Be Cautious With Private Mortgage Investments Private Mortgage Lending Can Be Risky If Not Managed Well! Lending money on a private mortgage can be a great investment. Investors can control their risk and have certainty on their interest rate. It is important to remember, though, that you have to ensure that you do [...]
Defences That Do Not Get Rid Of Mortgage Debt A Bad Defence To Your Mortgage Foreclosure When people fail to make their mortgage payments, they often point their finger at other people. In this case, the debtor wanted to avoid paying back his mortgage because (essentially) he had more debts than he [...]
Slip & Fall Injury Claims: Know what to do. Slip and fall injuries. They happen all the time. You are going about your day and suddenly you are hurt. What should you do? What can you do? When individuals and businesses (or even the City) do not take proper care of their [...]
What would you do if you had the world's worst neighbor? What if your next-door condo owner was so abrasive in her or his interactions with other owners in the building, that all efforts toward civil accord were futile? What if this owner had a lengthy history of physical assaults on residents; of intimidating neighbors [...]