Georgialee Lang has practiced as a trial and appellate lawyer in Vancouver, Canada for 30 years. She has been blessed with great clients, wonderful colleagues and exceptional cases. Her website is at georgialeelang.com. Her present focus is on appeal work, litigation strategy, arbitration, mediation and writing legal and political pieces.
A. INTRODUCTION
A source of great pride for many families is their multi-generational family business, a complex, dynamic organism that combines familial and business components. Unfortunately, the family business can slide into dysfunction when issues arise that would be foreign…
Continue Reading KEEPING IT OUT OF COURT: Dispute Resolution for the Family Business
With the September 2020 amendments to British Columbia’s Family Law Act, family arbitration provisions that were once found in the Arbitration Act RSBC 1996 c. 55 are now incorporated into B.C.’s family law legislation and judicial decisions under the new…
Continue Reading Family Arbitration: Jurisdiction and Self-Reps
Mehran Taherkhani and Rosa Donna Este were married in July 2004. Shortly before their marriage they entered into a handwritten agreement that provided that all property owned by each of them would remain the separate property of the owner, and…
Continue Reading Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice to Deceive
Child abduction is the worst kind of child abuse. To wrongfully remove a child from his or her primary parent is the ultimate weapon used by a warring parent. This truism is amply displayed in the case of Y.Q.…
Continue Reading A PARENT’S WORST NIGHTMARE: INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION
Picture the following scenario: After a blistering argument between Mr. and Mrs. A. resulting in assault charges against Mr. A. and an order barring him from being within 500 metres of his wife and the family home, the children refuse…
Continue Reading A Word or Two about Rhetorical Excess in Family Litigation
The Alberta Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of a father who had come to court seeking an increased parenting schedule but was rebuffed by the chambers judge who criticized his religious views and suggested that he needed to address…
Continue Reading APPEAL COURT HOLDS THAT APPELLANT’S RELIGIOUS BELIEFS DO NOT CONSTITUTE MENTAL UNFITNESS
Family law lawyers often refer to a deadly disease called “R.A.I.D.S.”, which is very contagious among family law litigants and frequently used as an excuse by wealthy spouses to explain the sudden downturn in their income.
In a 2010 decision…
Continue Reading R.A.I.D.S.: Recently Acquired Income Deficiency Syndrome
Today’s post looks at the lighter side of divorce and separation with a review of my top three “divorce” movies. And the winners are….
1. The War of the Roses
Who can forget the outrageous antics of Michael Douglas and…
Continue Reading Getting Divorced? See a Movie!
In difficult custody cases it is not unusual for parents to retain a psychologist to assess the family dynamics. Parents and child are interviewed, separately and together, and other people closely connected to the child, including grandparents, new partners, close…
Continue Reading High Conflict Custody Cases: Who Should Decide?
Appeal Court considers stay of custody order in the face of forged evidenceBy Georgialee A. Lang
Many family law attorneys enjoy their practices, despite the rigours of high-conflict litigation and often, never-a- dull-moment narratives, but Ontario counsel surely just survived the…
Continue Reading Forged Evidence Does Not Impress Appeal Court
