Noting To Discuss, Breaking from 20 Years of Intimate Partner Violence book launch has me eager to read this book.

He bought the company decades before the relationship and worked ten hour days to grow it. After a $5.3 million sale, he said his former spouse deserved less than half. A Kelowna judge disagreed, and found him in contempt of court along the way.

A BC couple's prenup protected his $8 million inheritance. After 13 years, the judge still split the remaining assets 55/45. Simply having a prenuptial, marriage or cohabitation agreement is not enough; you need to update, care for and reconsider the agreement after major life events.

He stopped paying the full amount when his health failed, and assumed the court would fix the past later. It did not. A new BC Supreme Court decision explains effective notice, retroactive variation, and what it takes to retroactively cancel support arrears.

Professional parenting supervisors in BC are unregulated, without training, screening or standards. A Surrey family lawyer explains why, and offers a model court order term that fixes it.

Two judges, one section of the Family Law Act, opposite results. A new BC Supreme Court decision explains when children get their own lawyer in a parenting dispute, and why the judge in this case decided that a lawyer would only have made things worse.

Cross-examination isn’t just a list of questions, it’s a sequence. Surrey family lawyer, Darnell Smith, explains how to build a cross-examination to be the greatest legal engine for discovering the truth. Establishing 4 steps of harvest, lock, erode and ask to good cross.

Nidhi Chauhan: "A separation agreement isn't about today's relationship. It's about protecting tomorrow's peace."

A quick guide on how to select your witnesses for your trial.

I just finished my first year of law school, and the most expensive thing I learned is that “we never got married” is not the legal force field people think it is. In BC, two year of living like a married couple can put you squarely inside the Family Law Act property division, pension splitting, spousal support, the whole thing. Here are five misconceptions I hear regularly, sorted out in plain English.

No family law topic causes more panic than spousal support, so let me defuse two things right away: it is not automatic, and it is not a fine for the breakup. It exists to address the real economic fallout of a relationship ending.

A BC father with a new family and heavy debt tried to cancel support for his university-age child. See why undue hardship failed but support still dropped.

A BC parent hid years of pay increases to avoid higher child support. See how and why our BC Supreme Court ordered $41,457 in retroactive support in Ketterer v. Altena.

Being in the right mindset is key to performing well at discovery. In this article, Darnell Smith helps examine what a discovery is and how to approach it.

BC Supreme Court ordered a multi-millionaire husband to fund $140,000 of his wife’s legal fees. How section 89 of the Family Law Act levels the playing field.

BC father paid the 2012child support amount for over a decade and never disclosed his rising income. The court just ordered $41,457 in retroactive child support and did so after the child reached 19 years of age.

Lady Justice packs a punch forcing a BC doctor trying to avoid spousal and child support to pay $650,000 to his ex-wife in 4 months time before the court is prepared to hear an appeal.