FAMILY

Our family law professionals are frequently called on to handle legal matters involving such things as separation, divorce, marriage annulment, child custody, support payments, family patrimony, property division, and matrimonial regimes. Our expertise in these areas is multifaceted.

General

• Drafting of procedures for legal separation, divorce, or marriage annulment
• Representation before the courts in matters of legal separation, divorce, marriage annulment, or litigation between common-law spouses
• Family mediation
• Legal advice and analysis of settlement summaries with regard to mediation before an accredited mediator
• Collaborative law

Children

• Adoption
• Child custody and access
• Child support payments
• Deprivation of parental authority
• Requests for confirmation of parental authority
• Paternity acknowledgment
• Representation of children before the courts

Spouses

• Spousal support payments
• Assessment of the division of family patrimony
• Dissolution of matrimonial regimes
• Negotiation and drafting of corollary relief agreements for divorce or legal separation

Common-law spouses

• Drafting of motions for partition of assets between common-law spouses
• Court representation of common-law spouses
• Drafting of agreements between common-law spouses
• Dissolution of agreements between common-law spouses

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