Family Law
Parents beware! You may be liable to pay for property damage caused by your child. Consider this scenario. When you are away at work on weekends, you usually have your 18 year old daughter babysit your 15 year old son so that he does not get into trouble. That...
Family Law
In family law, there are two kinds of relationships which create legal rights and obligations between spouses, married relationships and common law relationships. In order for such rights and obligations to arise between common law spouses, the spouses must have been...
Evidence
If you are suing a person, sometimes relevant documents go missing which could help or harm your case. If documents which you need to prove your case go missing due to the acts of the defendant, you may consider a remedy against the defendant based on the doctrine of...
Evidence
Most evidence at a trial involves testimony on subjects with which we are all familiar. Examples are testifying on the type of shoes a person was wearing when that person slipped and fell in an icy parking lot or whether the driver of a car smelled of alcohol at the...
Evidence
You have all heard the phrase “it’s hearsay.” Hearsay evidence is an oral or written statement made in court by one person about a statement made out of court by another person. The object of the court evidence is to establish the truth of what is contained in the out...
