Some of the problems that commonly arise relating to finances upon separation include:
Hiding of assets
Bank accounts being drained
Selling off property
Bills not being paid (eg mortgages, loans, credit cards)
Lack of access to financial resources; or
Lack of knowledge about current financial position
When it comes time to finalize how you are going to divide your assets (referred to as a financial or property settlement), it is what is remaining that is shared. So, if money is moved, spent or wasted, what is left over is what can be divided in that settlement. There is no opportunity…
The University of Victoria is celebrating the construction of its National Center for Indigenous Laws (NCIL).
The building is the first of its kind in Canada and has received funding from the provincial and federal governments, as well as the Law Foundation of BC
The NCIL is scheduled to open by fall 2024. Besides being a space to learn, the facility will help Indigenous laws re-emerge.
“Indigenous laws are lived and are living, but they have been suppressed and we have lost pieces of our laws,” said Patricia Barkaskas, NCIL strategic advisor to the dean.
“The space itself is a…
With all of the recent bombshell Fox News revelations in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation litigation, there’s a subtle but important point that’s worth emphasizing: rebroadcasting.
That is, as alleged by Dominion, the network re-aired segments pushing false 2020 election claims while knowing those claims were false.
Media law expert Lee Levine told Nicolle on the show Wednesday:
One of the most important things that stuck out to me about the new filing, which I had not realized before, was that some of these programs were rebroadcast in their entirety so that between the time of the original broadcast and…