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Steps to Reduce Conflict During Your Separation or Divorce
Being faced with divorce is not easy on anyone, and it is certainly not a situation most people expect to find themselves in. While nothing will make the process of divorce pleasant, you can take steps to help make the process smoother and minimize conflict with your spouse. Evaluate How You Are Communicating While emotions…
The Importance of Hiring a Corporate Lawyer for Your Business
Making the decision to take the entrepreneurial route and start your own business can be exciting and rewarding. However, it is also accompanied by a tremendous amount of responsibility, and requires you to ensure that you are protecting your company from risk. This includes taking all measures to ensure that you run your company in…
Why You Shouldn’t Ignore a Head or Spinal Injury?
If you are involved in a car accident, you may not immediately realize that you are injured. You may have an initial emotional shock and then be immersed administrative headaches that can come with getting in an accident, such as dealing with the other driver and your insurer, notifying your family, and getting your vehicle…
How Mediation Services Can Help In Your Separation or Divorce?
If you are facing separation or divorce, disputes are likely to arise between you and your former spouse — whether with respect to the division of the property and assets you own, who will stay in the house you owned together, or custody of your children. Although these differences can at first appear unresolvable, litigation…
What Legal Actions Should You Take After Being In A Car Accident In Vancouver?
A car accident can easily become your liability if you don’t know how to respond to one. As a vehicle driver, you should know the basic steps to take in you are involved in an accident as this can help you legally if a real situation occurs. Check For Injuries & For Your Safety It…
What To Do If You Get Into a Car Accident in Vancouver?
If you have been involved in a car accident, it is easy to panic and lose sight of what steps you should take to protect yourself not only physically, but legally. Below is a chronological guide outlining many of the steps you should take after you have been in an accident, particularly if you have…
What Compensation Is Available for a Head or Brain Injury Accident?
An acquired head or brain injury can impact your life significantly. From getting ready in the morning to earning an income, to preserving an interpersonal relationship, and raising a family, a brain injury can make seemingly simple tasks far more difficult to achieve. Defining what is a Brain Injury? A brain injury entails an external…
When a Brain Injury Claim Is Contested
If you have suffered a head injury, concussion, or mild or traumatic brain injury you should retain a personal injury lawyer as soon as possible. It is said that there is no other area of medicine is as controversial as mild traumatic brain injury. These cases require expert assessments and reports in order for your…
When Should You Litigate Your ICBC Claim?
You may view that ICBC will protect you financially if you get injured in a car accident. While this is true in certain cases, many times you will want the advice of a personal injury lawyer in Vancouver to let you know if you better off to litigate your ICBC claim. In the event of…
Tips On Injury Claims After A Bicycle Accident In Vancouver
Bicycle accidents in Vancouver, unfortunately, occur too often. Frequently the cause is distracted driving and failing to yield the right of way. Sometimes a person isn’t even aware of causing an injury to a cyclist. Insurance Corporation British Columbia (ICBC) reports that at least 670 cyclists are injured and six die each year from car…