Our lawyers are able to help on all areas of Canadian law.

Clients can use our legal assistance service to consult our lawyers and get general information on laws in force. The lawyers can provide the addresses of relevant Internet sites or referrals to appropriate organizations and contact persons.
A legal consultation implicates no limits in time.

The following is a list of different legal domains with which our lawyers can assist you:

• Family, marriage, divorce, family patrimony, obligation of support, child custody, common law partnership

  
  (ex. matrimonial regimes, family debts, termination of obligation of support, circumstances justifying custody changes, grand parents’ access rights to their grandchildren, why common law partners must sign a partnership contract)
  

• Succession and wills, donations

  
  (ex. Succession renunciation, will types, succession procedures, donation renunciation)
  

• Individual rights, protective supervision of persons of full age

  
  (ex. honour and reputation rights, consent to care, confinement in an institution, establishment of protective supervision of persons of full age, incapacity mandate
  

• Civil and damage responsibility

  
  (ex. physical injuries, parental responsibility, guardian or educator responsibility, injury inflicted by an animal, defamation, what damages can be claimed)
  

• Professional responsibility

  
  (ex. how to file a complaint, medical breach)
  

• Contract and breach of contract, breach of consent, intent to buy

  
  (ex. formation of contracts, consent: error, fear, lesion; sanctions due to breach of intent to buy).
  

• Consumer and consumer protection

  
  (ex. contract made with an itinerant merchant, instalment sales, rental, merchant refund and exchange, illegal commercial practices)
  

• Employment

  
  (ex. termination without just and sufficient cause, work accident, work norms)
  

• Housing

  
  (lease termination, breach of lease by lessee, repairs, disturbance of enjoyment)
  

• Neighborhood disputes

  
  (trees, common fences and works, noise)
  

• Building and latent defects

  
  (ex. warranty of quality, procedure to follow upon discovery of latent defects)
  

• Criminal and penal

  
  (ex. driving under the influence, threats, criminal harassment)
  

• Small Claims

  
  (ex. disputes eligible for Small Claims Court)
  
  
  Please note that the legal assistance service has certain exclusions.