These legal resources are designed for you to learn more about the law. They will help you recognize legal problems early and take action.
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General legal advice
Get tips and advice to prepare a will, prepare for a tribunal, resolve conflicts, increase your chance of success when immigrating to Canada and more.
Immigrating to Canada
Immigrating to Canada can be exciting, stressful and confusing. This Legal Health Check can increase your chance of success.
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5 steps to legal wellness
Speaks to the reasons why smaller legal problems can snowball into much larger and more complex problems, particularly for already vulnerable people.
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Avoid surprises
Builds awareness about the times when getting legal advice at an early stage can save money and aggravation later.
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Preparing a will
A will lets you make decisions that will be carried out after your death. If you die without a will, the laws of your province or territory will determine what happens to your assets. This checklist offers issues to keep in mind when preparing or updating your will.
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Preparing for a tribunal
Many legal problems are handled by tribunals. This Legal Health Check offers tips about the process.
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Resolving everyday conflicts
Life is full of conflicts. Dispute resolution offers ways to deal with them, often for less money and less time than going to court.
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Money matters
Learn about money matters, including disability income, pensions, financial abuse, buying a home, debt, online shopping and your retirement.
Explaining Disability Income
This Legal Heath Check describes sources of income that may be available when you lose your regular income because of disability or illness.
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How safe is your pension?
This Legal Health Check offers information about how secure your workplace pension is likely to be. The answer depends on things like the type of pension you have (defned contribution (DC) or defned beneft (DB)) and whether your employer goes bankrupt.
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Annual pension checkup
Your workplace pension plan can be your biggest asset. This Legal Health Check offers tips for reviewing your arrangements annually to avoid unintended surprises.
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Avoiding financial abuse
This Legal Health Check offers tips to avoid the financial scams that can happen to anyone.
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Before you buy
Alerts home buyers to questions they should be able to answer before they sign.
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Overwhelmed by debt?
If your money worries are out of control, consider the tips in this Legal Health Check.
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Safe online shopping
Shopping online can be convenient for you, but also for people selling counterfeit products, including those that can threaten your health and safety. This Legal Health Check offers tips for shopping online.
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Your retirement income
Apart from your own savings, what income can you expect when you retire?
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Separation and divorce
Find information on separation and divorce, expenses, parenting plans, tax tips, travelling with your child, common law and spousal support.
Special and Extraordinary Expenses
This Legal Health Check explains “special or extraordinary expenses” under the Child Support Guidelines.
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Parenting Terms
This Legal Health Check explains the changes to parenting terms under the Divorce Act. These new terms apply as of March 1, 2021.
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Breaking up – Parenting Plans
This Legal Health Check gives tips for making a parenting plan setting out how children's care might be shared after separation. Parenting plans can be brief or detailed, depending on the needs of the child(ren) and the parents’ circumstances. They can be an informal guide, or they can be part of a written agreement or court order.
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Travelling with a child?
* This legal health check does not take into account travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.Use this Legal Health Check to prepare for a safe and happy trip. It applies whether you are in a relationship, separated or divorced, or travelling with someone else’s child.
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Breaking up
Encourages separating couples to reduce costs and stress by taking a reasoned approach.
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Breaking up: parenting
Encourages separating couples to consider the impact of their next steps on their children.
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Breaking up: without court
Family separation is difficult. You may be able to come to an agreement on parenting, support and property outside the courtroom, at less cost, stress and conflict, and with a solution that’s right for your family.
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Common law property
At the end of a live-in relationship, there may be rights and responsibilities between spouses, even if you are not married. Your situation, and your deadline for acting, will depend on the law in your province or territory.
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Marrying or moving in?
The time to start talking about property and financial issues is before you marry or move in together. This Legal Health Check suggests topics to discuss with your partner.
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Spousal support
When a relationship ends, economic responsibilities for your spouse may not. This checklist offers issues to keep in mind about spousal support.
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Youth
Learn about youth living on their own, how to prevent cyberbullying, and a young person’s rights when questioned by police.
On your own – youth
Provides quick information on topics especially of interest to youth, with ways to find out more.
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Preventing cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is bullying with technology, including using social media or texting. This Legal Health Check gives some basic information about cyberbullying.
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Youth and police questioning
Youth aged 12 to 17 have rights when stopped by police or arrested. This Legal Health Check offers information about those rights.
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Seniors
Help the seniors in your life avoid financial abuse, prepare a will and determine what income they can expect when they retire.
Avoiding financial abuse
This Legal Health Check offers tips to avoid the financial scams that can happen to anyone.
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Preparing a will
A will lets you make decisions that will be carried out after your death. If you die without a will, the laws of your province or territory will determine what happens to your assets. This checklist offers issues to keep in mind when preparing or updating your will.
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Your retirement income
Apart from your own savings, what income can you expect when you retire?
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Business and employment
Get information on hiring employees and protecting your business from counterfeit goods. If you’re an employee, use our handy checklist for non-unionized staff.
Counterfeit and your business
Keeping counterfeit goods out of Canada can protect the reputation and intellectual property rights of your business. This Legal Health Check gives tips on keeping your business safe.
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Hiring for your small business
Operating a small business is exciting. This checklist offers issues to keep in mind when hiring. It can help you protect your interests, prevent problems and avoid costly mistakes.
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Non-unionized employees
This card offers a checklist of issues to keep in mind when working as a non-unionized employee. It can help you prevent problems, understand what legal issues to look out for and avoid costly mistakes.
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