Lawyer recs again, people...

[hatam_soferet]

We're moving to Quebec, my boy and I. Quebec counts us as married (de facto), so in a sense, moving to Quebec is like getting married.

Being tidy types, we decide to make a pre-nup.

So we ask around for a pre-nup lawyer. We get a recommendation from a friend. We email the lawyer a few times, no reply, we phone her. Her secretary doesn't use the Hold button so we hear her in the background going "Yeah, I have no idea who that guy is, he emailed me totally out of the blue..." and other things that didn't really fill us with confidence.

So. Anyone else know a pre-nup lawyer? Seems like everyone in my life is married; some of you lot must know someone who's done a pre-nup.

Comments

[mbarr]

Check. The prenup might need to be written there. International law is.. weird.


Also, in the US, prenup's are generally for specific reasons. NY has some requirements for them, and they didn't, in the end, seem to much matter. One of the requirements is for both parties to have their own council... and so you pay for *2* lawyers :)

You might also want to determine what you're trying to protect w/ the pre-nip. That, and what you want to achieve.

May not be worth the fairly expensive project.

[jack]

Ooh, yay, technical congratulations, um, sort of :)

Well, _you_ made the best prenup ever for our wedding but that doesn't really help :)

[(Anonymous)]

Read up on Quebec marital property laws--one of the reasons my partner and I civilly united there was that their default law mirrors the pre-nup we would have otherwise paid someone to write.

[kht.livejournal.com]

I have nothing useful to say, but congratulations on being pre-married!

[jillt]

Yay, congratulations on being a de facto spouse! Or does that only come into force when you cross the province frontier?

Quebec de facto law sounds tricky and precarious. Let the Eric and Lola case be a warning that you have to take steps to ensure that UD is legally bound to maintain Waan.