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A common concern when a parent enters into a new relationship is how to ensure their children from a previous marriage will be adequately taken care of at the time of their death. While the common answer is to enter into a mutual will, there may be some hidden dangers a parent has not thought of as an alternative arrangement which may be more suitable.

What is a mutual will?

A mutual will is a contractual agreement between at least two people who agree to draft their wills on similar terms, which the parties agree upon. This prevents either party

Keira’s Law has officially been passed by the Senate.

Bill C-233, more commonly known as ‘Keira’s Law,’ is meant to expand the training of judges to accept on cases surrounding domestic violence, coercive control and the ability to consider risk factors when issuing decisions.

The bill was named after Keira Kagan, a four-year-old girl who was found dead with her father at the bottom of a cliff outside of Toronto in 2022, believed to be the case of a murder-suicide.

Jennifer Kagan-Viater, Keira’s mother, describes her

When Farrah Jinha’s 15-year marriage failed, she never imagined it would result in an eight-year legal battle, culminating in 2021 with an 18-day trial pitting her — alone — against her ex-husband’s professional legal team.

But faced with a $200,000 retainer fee that needed to be paid to keep her lawyer, Jinha says she was forced to take over her divorce proceedings in the BC Supreme Court.

“I was scared, for sure, but I was also very determined to get this done, because the sense of injustice was just too big,” said the 53-year-old, who now lives in Toronto. “I

An Ohio grand jury declined to bring charges against eight Akron police officers — seven of them white — in connection with last year’s fatal shooting of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black motorist, officials said Monday.

The jury of three men and six women, which included two Black panelists, returned a “no bill” against the officers, authorities said.

“The grand jury concluded officers were legally justified in their use of force,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced.

The special Summit County grand jury had been deliberating over the incident, which began June 27 after officers tried to pull Walker over

(Reuters) – A former federal prosecutor whose clients have included billionaires Mark Cuban and Elon Musk, and who is currently representing President Joe Biden’s son Hunter in a US tax investigation, has left international law firm Latham & Watkins for a smaller litigation-focused firm .

Christopher Clark has joined forces with New York-based law firm Smith Villazor to form Clark Smith Villazor, they said on Thursday. The move reunites Clark with Patrick Smith, his former mentor from the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan.

“We’re an incredibly dangerous and frightening team for people to face off against, and that excites me,”

The Rabat Court of Appeal on Thursday night (Apr. 13) increased the sentences of three men accusing of raping an 11-year old girl.

The three defendants had pleaded not guilty. The new conviction was a relief for the victim’s legal team who appealed to the original judgement.

“We thank the court and the Moroccan justice system for responding to our request to review the first verdict which shocked everyone,” lawyer Abdelfattah Zahrach said.

A lower court initially sentenced one attacker to two years, the two others to 18 months each.

The new sentences of 20 years for one and 10