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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A Mareva injunction (often called a “freezing order”) is an exceptionally powerful legal instrument Canada inherited from the United Kingdom that orders a defendant not to move any assets they own or control, wherever and in whoever’s name they may be, in order to safeguard a plaintiff’s clear and a...
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In Quebec law, the overriding principle that DYP workers must respect is the interest of the child, not that of the parents. This principle is clearly recognized by the legislator, both in the Youth Protection Act (Article 3, YPA) and in the Civil Code of Québec (Article 33, C.c.Q.).
However, the...
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Goldwater, Dubé, a Canadian leader in family law since 1981, and senior partner Me Anne-France Goldwater, are honoured to announce the appointment of fellow senior partner Me Marie-Hélène Dubé to Judge of the Quebec Superior Court.
Honourable Justice Dubé, 53, is one of Quebec’s leading family la...
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If you are like most people, you probably have not spent much time in Court. In fact, you may never have even visited a courthouse.
Being nervous is understandable. To help you put yourself at ease, here are a few tips for what to expect when you enter the courthouse and some of the etiquette rul...
Continue readingGoldwater, Dubé, a Canadian leader in family law since 1981, wishes to reiterate the actual statements made by founding partner Me Anne-France Goldwater during her presentation on Bill 96, Quebec’s language legislation, at hearings organized by the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN).
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Public consultation meetings on the impacts of Quebec's Bill 96, the updated language laws, are taking place this week, organized by the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN). Me Goldwater was among the first presenters and told the anglophone rights organization that the province is living through...
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Goldwater, Dubé, a Canadian leader in family law since 1981, is pleased to announce an important Superior Court judgment it helped mount granting a compensatory allowance and lump sum of approximately $2 million to a divorced woman who, the judge ruled, co-managed and expanded her ex-husband’s busin...
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