Entries by Tara Holowach

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Trying to find missing beneficiaries

(or, how to deal with a receding heir line) Written by Andrew Powell, Partner One of the main functions of an executor or estate administrator is locating heirs and other people who may benefit from the estate – these people need notice that someone has died.   Under s.121 of the Wills, Estates and Succession […]

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Considering Adoption?

  Adoption is the process of changing a person’s legal parentage and can come up in many ways, including:  adoption through a licensed agency, adoption of children in care, private adoptions, and step-parent adoptions.   Each type of adoption has it’s own process, but all require the final approval of the court to become official.   If […]

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Consent of Child and Biological Parents during Adoption

  Are you considering adopting a step-child, or the child of a friend or family member? Before you do so you should know that adopting a child removes all rights and responsibilities from the original parent and gives them to you.   Depending on your situation there may be options short of adoption that would give […]

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Understanding Rights & Responsibilities of Adoption

  Do you have a stepchild?   Are you the main caregiver for a child you are not legally the parent of?   Are you considering adoption? Adoption can be an excellent way to recognize that you are a child’s parent and always will be.   An adoption also gives you all the rights of a parent.   On […]

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Considering Adoption?

If you’ve worked with an adoption agency you know the process of adoption can be long, expensive, and complicated. What you may not know is that to finalize an adoption you need to Petition the Supreme Court of British Columbia for an order making you the official parents of your new child. Although this process […]

Jackson v. Lindsay

2022 BCSC 793 Over $1,300,000 awarded at trial to plaintiff injured in horrific dirt biking accident: Mr. Jackson sustained significant injuries when riding his dirt bike on a private road, near his parents’ rural property. The occupier of the property had strung a metal chain across the road, with no signage or indication that it […]

Covid-19 Update

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