Tutorship and Curatorship: how to offer protection for incapacitated persons and takes their wishes and preferences into account.
Someone Is Draining My Mother's Bank Account—What Can I Do? Discovering that someone is draining your mother's bank account can be alarming and emotionally overwhelming. Whether the money is disappearing…
My Brother Is Taking Advantage of My Elderly Father. What Should I Do? When an elderly parent begins transferring money, changing a Will, signing powers of attorney, or relying heavily…
Protection Mandate Homologation, Defamation and a Social Worker Understanding the Role of a Social Worker During Protection Mandate Homologation In Québec, the homologation of a protection mandate is an important…
A lawyer and a neuro-divergent person A lawyer and a neurodivergent person In Québec, the legal framework recognizes the fundamental rights of all individuals, including those who are neurodivergent, through…
What happens if the mandator regains capacity? What happens if the mandator regains legal capacity? When a person who was previously declared incapable under Québec law regains sufficient mental capacity…
Protection mandate: What happens if the mandatary dies? Protection mandate: What happens if the mandatary dies? Under Québec law, a protection mandate (mandat de protection) allows a person (the mandator)…
Lawyer to protect vulnerable parents from scammers Lawyer to Protect Vulnerable Parents from Scammers in Quebec In recent years, an increasing number of elderly and vulnerable adults in Quebec have…
Marriage with an incapable person Marriage with an Incapable Person in Quebec Marriage in Québec, as in the rest of Canada, is governed primarily by federal law, under Parliament’s constitutional…
Account rendering for a protection mandate How to Do Account Rendering for a Protection Mandate After the Death of the Protected Person in Quebec In Québec, a protection mandate (formerly…
Contesting a protection mandate: a real-life example of legal intervention A family dispute over the protection of a loved one A law firm was hired to handle a case in…