Goldwater, Dubé, a Canadian leader in family law since 1981, and its senior partner Me Anne-France Goldwater wish to express profound concern over the plan to introduce a new crossbow hunting policy for the Montérégie in the midst of a Superior Court trial examining the parameters of the practice...
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Éric Dussault could never have imagined how the deer of Michel-Chartrand Park would impact his life.
When he reached out to authorities in late 2020 offering to relocate the deer population, the general manager of Sauvetage Animal Rescue thought at the time that his contribution would be primar...
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How to argue a case like Lola v. Eric in 2023? This was the challenge that Goldwater, Dubé presented to students from six Quebec law faculties for the second edition of its annual competition.
On the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision, which recognizes that de facto spouses...
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The anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the Lola v. Eric case just passed. It felt incredibly sad. The Supreme Court acknowledged that it is discriminatory for Quebec to continue to deprive a certain category of women and their children of rights simply because the spouses were not marrie...
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Read the Court of Appeal judgment here.
Goldwater, Dubé, a Canadian leader in family law since 1981, and its senior partner Me Anne-France Goldwater, will be heard by the Quebec Superior Court in the new year to defend a cause that continues to capture the public’s sympathy: opposing the planned d...
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Goldwater, Dubé, a Canadian leader in family law since 1981, and senior partner Me Anne-France Goldwater, are delighted to announce the decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal and Hon. Justice Stephen W. Hamilton, accepting that the court hear a landmark case that aims to protect the rights of sentie...
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Goldwater, Dubé is pleased to announce the arrival of Me Carolyne Desormiers, a seasoned lawyer specializing in both family law, and in civil and commercial litigation to its team.
Admitted to the Quebec Bar in 2011, Me Desormiers is an exceptional litigator whose areas of expertise are a natura...
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Introduced in 1989 by the Bourassa government, the family patrimony is a legislative particularity of Quebec which aims to create a third patrimony in which the spouses invest financially in the name of an entity called “The Family”. Concretely, the Quebec legislator wanted to protect the interests...
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If there is one thing that all parents know, it is that children, despite the priceless happiness they bring, are expensive. And child support is there to remind you of that.
In Quebec, child support is very regulated and constitutes a matter of public order: no one can waive it. To set child supp...
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Goldwater, Dubé, a Canadian leader in family and animal rights law, has initiated an action at Quebec Superior Court to prevent the Montreal suburb of Longueuil — Quebec’s fifth largest city — from resorting to an unnecessary and cruel slaughter in order to control the deer population in Michel Char...
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