LAW COURSES

CROWSNEST PASS ADULT EDUCATION
AND
LETHBRIDGE COLLEGE
ARE OFFERING
PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION PRESENTATIONS BY
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, October 8, 2008
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: Chinook Educational Consortium, 2nd Floor, Room 10
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
To Register: 562-2853

Buying and Selling a Home

This presentation will introduce you to the “Standard” house purchase and sale and how it usually proceeds. You will learn about:
• Real estate purchase agreements, real property reports and title insurance
• Mortgages - what a mortgage is, what can happen upon default, qualifying for a mortgage, budgeting for your purchase (how much can you afford?) and keeping borrowing costs to a minimum
• Some of the things a wise purchaser should be looking for when going through a house and deciding whether to buy
• The real estate agent, the lawyer, the mortgage lender, the house inspector and the surveyor and what they do.
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Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: Chinook Educational Consortium, 2nd Floor, Room 10
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
To Register: 562-2853

Being an Executor

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 22, 2008
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: Chinook Educational Consortium, 2nd Floor, Room 10
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
To Register: 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, October 29, 2008
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: Chinook Educational Consortium, 2nd Floor, Room 10
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
To Register: 562-2853

Small or Home Business Law

Starting a small business - in your home? Somewhere else? Many of the things you need to think about have a legal connection, like:
• Pros and cons of incorporation
• Licensing and other government requirements
• Contracts - what they are and when they're enforceable
• Steps in collecting unpaid accounts
• Basic rules around employment law
• Freedom of information and privacy law
• Tax

Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: Chinook Educational Consortium, 2nd Floor, Room 10
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
To Register: 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, November 12, 2008
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Cost: $15.00
Instructor: TBA
Location: Chinook Educational Consortium, 2nd Floor, Room 10
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
To Register: 562-2853

The Crowsnest Pass Adult Education Association and Lethbridge College’s Public Legal Education Program cosponsor these courses. The purpose of the Public Legal Education Program is to help the public learn about law and the legal system. To do so, the program provides general education and information, but cannot however 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.