Explore the ins and outs of the Family Property Act, including practical takeaways that will assist you in your role as legal support staff. Total running time is 2 hours, 28 minutes.

Legal support staff’s assistance in the preparation of Family Property Statements can be invaluable to a lawyer – if done properly. This on-demand program provides information on how to prepare Family Property Statementst to provide the information needed to settle the division of family property.

Prepared by leading family law practitioners, the Alberta Family Law Practice Manual guides you through a family law file from start to finish, whether the file proceeds through collaborative law, mediation, arbitration, or court. Highlights include comprehensive information on divorce, matrimonial property, child and spousal support, and trials.

Legal support staff’s assistance in the preparation of Family Property Statements can be invaluable to a lawyer – if done properly. While the preparation of these statements may seem repetitive or mundane when you are being asked to complete one every property file, as you will learn within this paper, the FPS is extremely helpful because it provides a high-level overview of all the family property and is often used to settle the division of family property. This paper was presented at LESA’s Family Property Act for Legal Support Staff webinar on April 22, 2021.