Pettit and Company

08/18/2021

Pettit and Company

Get a will. And get it done right.

Jim Morrison got a will. But he didn't get it right.

Morrison drafted a simple will. It gave his estate to his then partner, Pamela Courson. However, if she passed away within 3 months of Morrison passing away, then, his estate went to his siblings.

Not good drafting as it turned out.

Courson passed away 3 years after Morrison. So Morrison's estate did not go to his siblings. But Courson herself died without a will, a situation called an intestacy. That meant that Morrison's vast estate went to her parents.

Reportedly, Morrison and the Courson parents did not get along. Presumably, Morrison would not have wanted them getting his estate, particularly instead of his siblings. But he had a badly drafted will so that is what happened.

At Pettit and Company, we will draft a will that actually does what you want it to do.

Unlike Jim Morrison.

We are a local community law firm with brick and mortar offices in North Vancouver and Squamish. Our lawyers are proud and contributing members of local communities including North Vancouver, Squamish, Horseshoe Bay, Vancouver, and Whistler. We have deep roots in these communities.

Please feel free to call Amanda Groves at 604-998-0901 to discuss your will and estate planning.

We are here to serve you.

www.pettitandco.com

www.squamish-lawyers.ca

604-998-0901

Pettit and Company is a dynamic North Vancouver firm focused on litigation.

08/03/2021

North Shore Lawyers - Pettit & Company, North Vancouver

Opening a new business?

We can help! Business law at Pettit and Company.

We can assist you in creating a new corporation for your new business as well as provide sage advice on issues of business contracts including leases, employment contracts, and partnership and shareholder contracts.

Call us at 604-998-0901

www.pettitandco.com

Offices in North Vancouver and Squamish.

We provide excellence in legal services to Metro Vancouver and the North Shore and Sea to Sky Country.

We are also available for consultations on the Sunshine Coast: Gibsons and Sechelt.

We also provide corporate record holding, corporate maintenance and trouble shooting for businesses. We are here to help.

North Shore Lawyers & ICBC personal injury claim experts. Also specializing in Civil Litigation, Strata Law, and Family Law in North Vancouver and Squamish.

07/22/2021

Pettit and Company

Opening a new business?

We can help! Business law at Pettit and Company.

We can assist you in creating a new corporation for your new business as well as provide sage advice on issues of business contracts including leases, employment contracts, and partnership and shareholder contracts.

Call us at 604-998-0901

www.pettitandco.com

Offices in North Vancouver and Squamish.

We provide excellence in legal services to Metro Vancouver and the North Shore and Sea to Sky Country.

Pettit and Company is a dynamic North Vancouver firm focused on litigation.

06/23/2021

Pettit and Company updated their website address.

Pettit and Company updated their website address.

06/23/2021

Get a will done.

Jimi Hendrix didn't. When he died in 1970 at age 27, he hadn't done a will.

What followed was 30 plus years of estate and related litigation. First, his father sued successfully for control of the estate. Second, after Jimi's father passed away, his brother sued unsuccessfully for control of the estate which had been given to his sister.

A proper will would have prevented much or all of this litigation.

At Pettit and Company, we practice both wills and estates and estate litigation. In other words, we can draft wills to prevent litigation and ensure our clients' intentions are honoured.

Call us: 604-998-0901. We can help.

Ask for Amanda Groves for wills and estate planning.

www.pettitandco.com

Offices in North Vancouver and Squamish.

05/25/2021

Wills and Estates.

Peace of mind.

Pettit and Company is now offering basic wills: $515 for an individual and $785 for a couple.

We are a BC law firm with brick and mortar offices in North Vancouver and Squamish. Our lawyers have longstanding ties to the North Shore and Sea to Sky country.

When you deal with us, you are dealing with lawyers who treat your legacy as the unique case that it is and not a one size fits all software app.

Our clients are incredibly important to us. We live in the same communities as our clients. We are there for our clients for the long term.

Amanda Groves is one of our wills lawyers. She is an incredibly strong advocate for her clients' best interests.

Call us to discuss your legacy: 604-998-0901.

05/11/2021

2021 BCCA 189 Ojanen v. Acumen Law Corporation

https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/ca/21/01/2021BCCA0189.htm

On appeal from: An order of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, dated August 13, 2019 (Acumen Law Corporation v. Ojanen, 2019 BCSC 1352, New Westminster Docket S195688).

05/06/2021

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05/06/2021

Wills and Estates.

Pettit and Company is now offering basic wills: $515 for an individual and $785 for a couple.

We are a BC law firm with brick and mortar offices in North Vancouver and Squamish.

When you deal with us, you are dealing with lawyers who treat your legacy as the unique case that it is and not a one size fits all software app.

Our clients are incredibly important to us. We live in the same communities as our clients. We are there for our clients for the long term.

Call us to discuss your legacy: 604-998-0901.

03/25/2021

Wills and Estates.

Pettit and Company will soon be offering wills and estates and estate planning.

Amanda Groves and Kasia Koltunska will be offering these legal services to clients in the Lower Mainland and the Sea to Sky Corridor in the coming months.

We very much look forward to serving the wills and estate needs of clients from Vancouver to Pemberton. We have offices in North Vancouver and Squamish.

Call us to discuss your legacy: 604-998-0901

http://www.pettitandco.com/wills

02/04/2021

Squamish Lawyers | Sea to Sky Lawyers | Pettit and Company

The family lawyers at Pettit and Company are well versed in the procedures in court and fight hard for the rights of their clients.

Janneke Lewis from our North Vancouver office had a great win this week in the Supreme Court in having an expert report found to be inadmissible due to its late delivery.

In choosing a family law lawyer, its important to choose someone with expertise and knowledge of the law. It is also important to choose a family lawyer who can win in court when court is unavoidable.

Pettit and Company has 4 family lawyers, including one lawyer in Squamish, who can provide excellent service throughout the Sea to Sky corridor.

We are here to help. Call us: 604-998-0901.

www.pettitandco.com

https://www.family-lawyer-north-vancouver.ca/

https://www.squamish-lawyers.ca/

Squamish Lawyers - Pettit and Company are your Sea to Sky civil litigation firm with associates who can litigate and litigate exceedingly well.

12/10/2020

Statue of Themis, Goddess of Justice. Vancouver Supreme Courthouse.

Tim and Brandon are on week 4 of a long and complicated strata property case. We are acting on behalf of a strata corporation in a dispute with a large developer.

Pettit and Company is a litigation firm. We help clients with disputes in many areas of law: strata, family, employment, personal injury, estate litigation, human rights, and real estate.

At Pettit and Company, our clients are our first priority.

Call us. We can help.

www.pettitandco.com

604-998-0901

Offices in North Vancouver and Squamish.

12/03/2020

A rare, quiet moment at the Vancouver courts.

This week, Pettit and Company has two trial teams working here at the Vancouver courts.

Tim and Brandon are on a 5 week strata property trial.

Caitlin and George are on a 1 week personal injury trial.

Both trial teams are working hard to secure fair and just verdicts for their clients.

Pettit and Company are trial lawyers.

We are here to help you with your litigation needs.

We provide excellent service in matrimonial, estate litigation, personal injury, strata property, employment and other areas of trial advocacy.

We are here for you.

www.pettitandco.com

Call 604-998-0901

11/07/2020

B.C. bans all social gatherings, indoor group activities in Lower Mainland amid surging COVID cases

https://globalnews.ca/news/7449130/b-c-health-saturday-covid-19-briefing/?fbclid=IwAR0hum2_lVBwZ3KiAW8SS4Q1N3EjpCQ3PhVfiCGO5BTbcGaUqmWbGx6N5jM Stay safe, BC!

The update comes as B.C. grapples with a surging second wave of the pandemic, shattering records Friday with 589 new cases.

11/04/2020

Family law.

Strong, compassionate representation.

At Pettit and Company, our family lawyers are superlative litigators. This allows our lawyers to not only provide sound legal advice, but also help our clients secure just results in court.

Case in point. Recently, one of our clients faced a very serious possible dilemma. He and his ex-spouse and their children lived in a small town in BC. The mother wanted to relocate herself and the children out of province. Our client, who had a good job in BC, either had to give up his job and follow the ex-spouse out of BC in order to have contact with his kids or keep his job but lose contact with his kids.

Pettit and Company family lawyer Janneke Lewis resisted the mother's attempt to relocate the kids out of BC in court. Putting the best interests of the children forward, Janneke went to court and convinced the judge that the best interests of the children were to remain in the small town in BC, with both parents and with the father's strong earnings intact.

It was a very good result for our client.

It was an example of strong, compassionate representation. We bring it to all of our clients.

Call us: 604-998-0901
www.pettitandco.com

Offices in North Vancouver and Squamish.

Serving North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Metro Vancouver, Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton and the Sunshine Coast

We are here for you.

08/23/2020

Family law issue?

We can help.

Allie Booth is one of the exceptional family lawyers providing excellent legal advice and representation to clients in the Pettit and Company Family Practice Group.

Allie is a very strong civil litigator with 22 years experience in court. Allie brings a fierce dedication to her clients and a chess master's approach to litigation strategy.

But, ultimately, Allie is about achieving fair and cost-effective outcomes for her clients and she is focused on reasonable, common sense resolution of family law issues first and foremost.

When not providing top level support and representation for her clients, Allie can be found hiking the North Shore mountains with her incredibly friendly Rottweiler, Max, pictured here.

Allie provides family law advice and representation to clients in Metro Vancouver, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton.

https://www.pettitandco.com

https://www.family-lawyer-north-vancouver.ca/

https://www.squamish-lawyers.ca/

604-998-0901

08/14/2020

Amanda Groves is one of Pettit and Company’s exceptional Family Law Lawyers. Her family law practice includes helping clients navigate the difficulties that can arise during marital break down, including issues of access, support, custody and division of assets.

Amanda is a gifted civil litigator with over 15 years of litigation, mediation and trial experience. She approaches her clients’ cases with compassion and common sense, yet has the experience, willingness and competence to go to court when necessary to achieve the very best possible result for her clients.

Amanda is a dedicated North Vancouver resident and provides exceptional family law services to clients from Metro Vancouver as well as North Shore and the Sea to Sky corridor.

www.pettitandco.com

www.squamish-lawyers.ca

604-998-0901

08/02/2020

Employment law issue?

Kaitlin Green is one Pettit and Company's exceptional Employment Lawyers. Her employment practice includes helping terminated employees get fair outcomes.

Kaitlin approaches her client's cases with compassion, common sense and razor sharp analysis. Her legal research skills are tier one. She works hard to achieve justice for her clients.

Kaitlin is a gifted civil litigator with significant litigation experience with both trial and appellate level experience. She has the willingness and competence to go to court to obtain the very best results for her clients.

Kaitlin provides employment law services to Metro Vancouver as well as North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Gibsons, Sechelt, Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton.

www.pettitandco.com

www.employment-lawyer-north-vancouver.ca

Call Kaitlin: 604-998-0901

Kaitlin's bio: http://www.vancouvericbclawyers.com/index.php?page=3&did=15599&level=1&type=unique

07/28/2020

Pettit and Company is delighted to announce that Caitlin MacDonell has joined the firm. Caitlin has a strong background in matrimonial law and estate litigation and will be practising in the firm's Family Law and Estate Litigation practice groups.

Caitlin is a dedicated Squamish resident and looks forward to providing excellent legal services with common sense and compassion to the inhabitants of Sea to Sky Country: Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton.

www.pettitandco.com

www.squamish-lawyers.ca

Call 604-998-0901

07/16/2020

Pettit and Company is tremendously excited to announce that Janneke Lewis has joined the firm!

Janneke is a senior and extremely capable family law lawyer and litigator, mediator and parenting coordinator who brings a wealth of family law expertise to P & C's growing family law practice.

Pettit and Company strives for excellence in the provision of legal services to the North Shore and Sea to Sky Country.

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06/08/2020

Estate Litigation in Sea to Sky Country.

Are you an executor confronted with legal claims on an estate? Are you a beneficiary to an estate with a claim?

Pettit and Company can help. We have offices in North Vancouver and Squamish and can offer estate litigation services to the residents of Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton.

Call our main line at 604-998-0901. We can help.

https://www.squamish-lawyers.ca/

http://www.vancouvericbclawyers.com/estate-litigation

05/24/2020

Emily Tolmie Ceramics “etc”: So grateful to have discovered the incredible talents of Squampton resident, Emily Tolmie of Mudflats Studio. The Pettit and Co Squamish office staff and visitors are well equipped with beautiful dishes! The semi annual Squamish Refresh Market is a treasure trove of talent.

See Emily Tolmie Ceramics- Mudflats Studio

Thank you Emily!

05/15/2020

Family law.

We are here to help.

We understand the difficulties that arise during marital breakdown. Even in the most amicable break ups, there are often complicated issues of access, support, custody, and division of property.

We are here to provide competent advice and strong legal support during difficult times.

Call us at 604-998-0901.

Or check us out at:

www.squamish-lawyers.ca

www.pettitandco.com

We are in Squamish and here to help the Sea to Sky Country.

05/15/2020

Has your business suffered a temporary shut down due to Covid19? If so, do you have Business Interruption Insurance? Business Interruption Insurance is a type of insurance that replaces business income lost due to a disaster.

If you have this type of insurance, has your insurance company met its obligations under your insurance contract?

If not, we may be able to help. We are happy to provide a free consultation and review your insurance policy and your situation to see if your company has a valid claim.

Call us at 604-998-0901.

We are in North Vancouver and Squamish:

www.pettitandco.com

www.squamish-lawyers.ca

We have decades of insurance law expertise to help you during this trying time.

05/08/2020

It's not called Sea to Sky Country for nothing. Pettit and Company's own Kasia Koltunska took this on an epic summiting trip to the top of Garibaldi.

04/23/2020

Pettit and Company is proud to announce that we are officially operational in Squamish! We are very excited to provide a range of legal services to the communities of Sea to Sky Country including personal injury, family law, estate litigation, and employment law.

That said, in respect to our neighbours and to help flatten the curve, we are keeping our operations in Squamish closed to the public in the short term. However, we invite any and all enquiries to our main line: 604-998-0901.

On the issue of employment law, please check out our employment law web page which has excellent information as to the effect of the corona virus on the rights of employees and employers:

https://www.employment-lawyer-north-vancouver.ca/

02/16/2020

Timothy Pettit on LinkedIn: Reflections on No Fault #1: Excessive Expert Fees So No Fault is

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timothy-pettit-37187553_reflections-on-no-fault-1-excessive-expert-activity-6634627160449646592-eX-J

Reflections on No Fault #1: Excessive Expert Fees So No Fault is coming. How did we get here? How did British Columbians lose important civil rights...

02/01/2020

Pettit and Company is a dynamic litigation firm in North Vancouver ... and soon to be in Squamish as well. Stay tuned for updates on the opening of our Squamish office!

Photo credit: P & C's own Kasia Koltunska

02/01/2020

Pettit and Company - Coming to Squamish!

We are very pleased to announce that we will be opening a branch office of Pettit and Company in Squamish. Pettit and Company is a North Vancouver based litigation firm offering legal services in civil litigation, personal injury, construction litigation, strata property litigation, employment law, family law and estate litigation.

We are looking forward to offering legal services to the residents of Sea to Sky country!

We anticipate our office opening for business in the next few months.