CROWSNEST PASS ADULT EDUCATION –LAW FOUNDATION VIDEO COURSES

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VIDEO CONFERENCE

An Enduring Power of Attorney – A Personal Directive – A Will: A Legal Toolkit

Planning for disability or death is never pleasant. However, it is an important part of identifying what you want done when something like this happens to you and helping those around you carry out your wishes. An enduring power of attorney, a personal directive and a will are basic to building your plan.
With them you can set out respectively:
• Who will handle your financial affairs and how if you become mentally incompetent
• If you become mentally incompetent, who will handle your medical and other personal life decisions and the kinds of choices they can make for you.
• How you want your estate to be dealt with at your death.

In this presentation you will learn about these basic legal tools and what is involved in acquiring them.

Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: MDM, 2nd Floor
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
To Register: 403-562-2853

Being an Executor – Legal Rights and Responsibilities

This presentation will provide an overview of the legal rights and responsibilities of an executor.
• Gathers in the estate assets
• Pays the debts
• Distributes to beneficiaries
• Generally administers the estate

Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: MDM, 2nd Floor
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
To Register: 403-562-2853

Law and Living Together

What are the legal rights and responsibilities of unmarried people living together as spouses and how do they differ from those of married people? What is a cohabitation agreement and how important is it for people in such relationships to have one? This presentation provides an opportunity to look at questions like these. The topics for discussion include care and support of children, inheritance and property.

Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: MDM, 2nd Floor
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 6, 2010
To Register: 403-562-2853

Grandparents, Grandchildren and Law

Grandparents often play a significant role in the lives of their grandchildren and the emotional ties can be deep. If parents separate or divorce, it can become difficult for grandparents to maintain this relationship with their grandchildren. Other times, such situations can result in grandparents providing much or all of the care for their grandchildren. How does the legal system respond in these types of situations? This session looks at subjects like parenting of and contact with children (also referred to as custody and access), maintenance and guardianship from the grandparents-grandchild perspective.

Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: MDM, 2nd Floor
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 13, 2010
To Register: 403-562-2853

Losing A Job and Wrongful Dismissal

In this presentation you’ll learn about:

• When a dismissal is “wrongful”
• Rights and responsibilities of employers in situations where an employee is dismissed
• Rights and responsibilities of someone who loses a job, and
• The amount of compensation that may be awarded to wrongfully dismissed employees and how it is determined.

Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: MDM, 2nd Floor
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
To Register: 403-562-2853

Separation and Divorce

In the course of exploring what can happen legally when a couple decides to separate or divorce, the speaker will discuss issues like:
• The process – what is the court process? Are there other ways, like mediation or collaborative law to try and how do they work?
• Child maintenance, custody (parenting) and access (contact) – how the children will be looked after
• Spousal maintenance – the extent to which one separating or divorcing spouse will have to support the other
• Matrimonial property – how the property will be divided.

Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: MDM, 2nd Floor
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
To Register: 403-562-2853

Residential Tenancies

• Rent
• Security Deposits
• Termination of Tenancies and
• Notice
These are a few of the things that will be discussed in this look at legal rights and responsibilities of residential tenants and landlords.

Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: MDM, 2nd Floor
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, November 3, 2010
To Register: 403-562-2853

Small Claims Court and How It Works

This is an introduction to ‘Small Claims Court’(now called Provincial Court – Civil). It will give you a chance to learn about:

• What kinds of cases the court hears
• The limit for claims
• How lawsuits in the court are started and defended
• Procedure before trial including processes like mediation
• Evidence and witnesses; and
• Conducting trials and what actually happens there

Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: MDM, 2nd Floor
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
To Register: 403-562-2853

This video conference is presented by Lethbridge College’s Public Legal Education Program. The program helps educate the public about law and the legal system by providing general education and information. (The program does not provide legal advice). The program is funded by a grant from the Alberta Law Foundation.

Lethbridge College is a member of PLENA, the Public Legal Education Network of Alberta.

The Crowsnest Pass Adult Education is a local co-sponsor of this video conference.
For more information or to register please call Toni at 403-562-2853