The Bye’s divorced in 2010. In 2015 they entered into a consent order for child support for their two children, who were then 10 and 12 years old. The youngest child turned 19 in August of 2019 and the eldest attained the age of 19 in February 2021. Both remained in the primary residence of Ms. Bye….
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The Globe and Mail runs my opinion piece on Canada’s digital services tax today. I open by noting that the Canadian government’s efforts to regulate big tech companies sometimes feels like a series of high-stakes poker matches in which the government foolishly bets that readily apparent risks can be ignored. That approach has proven costly:…
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Manolis Perakis, Assistant Professor of EU Law, Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece In the context of promoting the rule of law as a fundamental value that must govern the action of the Union and its Member States, the CJEU delivered its judgment on appeal in Venezuela v Council case (C-872/19)…
Here’s a common scenario most face when they know of a deceased person who used to live in New York, moved out of the country, but still had a safety deposit box in the state: The deceased died in Ecuador. Years later, the family receive a letter from Chase Bank about the decedent’s two safety…
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Part 3 of a short series of reflections on Ofcom’s Illegal Harms consultation under the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA). This post analyses the illegality duties created by the OSA. That is not as simple as one might hope. The intrepid reader has to hack their way through a thicket of separately defined, subtly differing, duties….
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What if you had an easement to place roads across property to access your own, and you then developed your property into a shopping center. Could you include parking spaces in the easement area? A recent California decision points out the requirement to be clear in drafting easement language because only necessary incidental uses are…
In Ontario, family law distinguishes between married spouses and common law partners, as each relationship has their own unique legal rights and obligations, especially upon separation. Many assume that the legal implications for common law couples and married couples are the same, however, this is not the case. Definition and Establishing the Relationship Married…
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Florida has seen tremendous growth and development over the past decade. With that growth has come a lot of changes in the economy and a large spike in population. This has created a thriving real estate market for homebuyers, with the demand for housing rising greatly. But there is one major thing we have learned…
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This is the fifth and final post in a blog series in honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Cybersecurity might seem like technical stuff, but don’t overlook the role of physical vulnerabilities in security incidents. The 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 11% of breaches involved physical actions. The 2016 Verizon Data Breach…
Wrongful Death Process One of the first steps in the handling of a potential wrongful death case in New York is to confirm that there has been a death caused by wrongful conduct. There must be survival by distributees who have suffered pecuniary loss, which means that if none of the decedent’s survivors relied on…
