Our Practice Areas
We serve Southwestern Ontario in the following practice areas:
corporate & commercial
Dunphy Burdett Lawyers LLP is experienced with the corporate transactions being completed by small and big businesses in Ontario. Corporate & Commercial law is a complex area of law that touches every area of your business. Dunphy Burdett Lawyers LLP is positioned to ensure that the legal needs of your business are being met in strategic and efficient ways. Whether you are a small business, an entrepreneur or a large corporation, we have the knowledge and expertise to advise you and your business in any of the following:
Incorporation
Amendment
Amalgamation
Reorganization
Share or Asset Transactions
Shareholder agreements
Partnership agreements
Financing agreements
Employment matters
Commercial real estate and other property matters
real estate
The lawyers at Dunphy Burdett Lawyers LLP will provide efficient and effective advice on your real estate transactions, from drafting and reviewing an Agreement of Purchase through to overseeing complex financings. Whether you are a first-time homebuyer or you have substantial commercial holdings, we have extensive experience and can assist you as your navigate your purchase, sale, or financing.
We can help you with:
Residential real estate purchases and sales
Commercial real estate purchases and sales
Farm purchases and sales
Mortgages and other financings
Commercial leases
Land development and planning matters, including severances, variances, and zoning changes
FAMILY LAW
Family matters are almost always difficult, whether it be navigating a separation or divorce, fighting to protect your children and your access to them, or even drafting a cohabitation or prenuptial agreement. It’s difficult because there is a lot at stake. With our experience we can help you reduce some of the difficulty by helping you manage some of the complexity of the legal processes you have to go through. We will give you the advice and recommendation you need to protect your interests, your children, and to help you move on to new beginnings.
We can help you with:
Divorce and separation
Children, including custody and access, guardianship, child support
Finances and property, including division of property, child support, spousal support
Agreements, including separation agreements, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements
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WILLS, POWERS OF ATTORNEY AND ESTATE ADMINISTRATION
Proper estate planning will help to ensure that your trustees have clear instructions for how to oversee the distribution of the property you have worked hard to build over the course of a lifetime. This gives you the security of knowing that things will be as you want them to be, and it gives your trustees the comfort of knowing they are doing what you wanted to have done.
Dunphy Burdett Lawyers LLP lawyers have the experience to help you prepare your estate, and the experience to help your trustees administer your estate efficiently. We will work with you so you can focus on what is most important to you at a time that is often already difficult.
We can help you with:
Preparation of Wills
Preparation of Powers of Attorney for property and for personal care
Preparation of Codicils
Estate administration
Family Trusts
Capacity matters