Lawyers Practicing

Kerry UnRuh
Charlotte Meek

Family Law

Our family law practitioners understand that a breakdown of a relationship (marriage or common-law) is both emotionally and financially challenging for families. Our lawyers aim to find a solution that is the least traumatic for the parties involved. Where possible we will seek to achieve a mutually agreeable resolution through negotiation. In some cases negotiation is not successful and where necessary our lawyers will access the court system to seek relief on our client’s behalf.

Our family law practitioners have experience appearing in all levels of Manitoba Courts. We are ready to provide services to our clients in areas including, adoption, child support, common law relationships, custody and access, divorce, domestic violence, grandparent’s rights, guardianship, property division, same-sex relationships, separation, spousal support and variations.

If you would like to set up an appointment to meet with one of our lawyers, please contact our office. Our lawyers offer a one-hour consultation appointment in which they will canvass your legal matter and provide advice on how to proceed. Fees for consultation appoints vary depending on the experience and expertise of the lawyer. After a consultation appointment you may choose to retain our firm to represent you

Consult Appointment Information

During a one-hour consult appointment, one of our family lawyers will review your matter with you and provide you with advice and options to proceed. While time within the appointment is limited, our lawyers will review your financial information in order to give you the most accurate advice possible. The following documents will be of assistance:

  1. Tax Returns for the last 3 consecutive years
  2. Notices of Assessment for the last 3 consecutive years
  3. Most recent paystub

Resources

Child/Spousal Support Calculator: https://www.mysupportcalculator.ca/
Maintenance Enforcement Program: https://www.gov.mb.ca/justice/courts/mep/index.html
Family Conciliation: https://www.gov.mb.ca/fs/childfam/family_conciliation.html
For the Sake of the Children: https://www.gov.mb.ca/fs/childfam/for_sake_of_children.html
Federal Child Support Guidelines (Manitoba Table): https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/fl-df/child-enfant/fcsg-lfpae/2017/pdf/mba.pdf
Families Change (Resource Page): https://mb.familieschange.ca/
Fort Gary Women’s Resource Centre: http://fgwrc.ca/
Family Law in MB – Public Information Booklet 2014: https://www.gov.mb.ca/justice/crown/family/law/pubs/familylawbooklet2014.pdf

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387 Broadway, Winnipeg, MB R3C 0V5

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With growing global concerns around COVID-19 (“coronavirus”), we want to address the steps we have taken to ensure the health, safety and well-being of those attending our offices. The well-being of our employees and guests is a top priority and we are following the lead of Canadian public health authorities at this important time. While the Public Health Agency of Canada has assessed the current public health risk associated with coronavirus as low, we continue to monitor for developments very closely. Appropriate measures have been implemented to ensure our office is safe and we have protocols in place to ensure they stay that way including:

Introducing enhanced cleaning protocols, with particular focus on high traffic and high contact areas. Coronaviruses are easily eliminated by routine surface cleaning and the cleaning products we use are approved for this purpose;
Increasing communications and reminders with our visitors and employees on important health and safety measures.

To protect yourself and others, we ask that anyone who is feeling unwell refrain from visiting our office so that together we can take reasonable measures to prevent transmission of the virus. Know that we are doing our part by putting employment policies in place so that our staff are protected and are not penalized financially if they need to stay home.
Again, we continue to monitor this situation closely and will provide ongoing updates as needed. We also encourage you to stay up-to-date through Canada’s Public Health website.

Thank you.