Kelly Santini is honoured to be presenting this year’s Ottawa Arts Council Emerging Artist Award. The award recognizes and encourages the achievements of Ottawa artists who are in the early stages of their career in the arts and are working towards becoming recognized professional artists, while engaging with the community….
When someone dies without having made a will, they are referred to as having died “intestate”. When someone dies intestate, administering their estate is more complicated compared to someone who dies having made a will. To begin with, it is highly likely that in order to properly administer an intestate…
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, blogs, and video sites. We’re increasingly inter-connected through numerous social media platforms and are more instantly accessible than ever before. Of course, with the benefits of this comes misuse and even abuse, and I find myself implementing social media clauses in more and more of the…
A marriage contract is the Canadian name for what most people call a “pre-nuptial agreement” or “pre-nup”, which are popular American terms. A cohabitation agreement can be like a marriage contract in many respects, but it is between people in a relationship with no plans to marry or whose focus…
In recent years, more and more people have begun living together without marrying. In Ontario, property entitlements automatically arise when two people marry. Without a domestic contract (cohabitation agreement or marriage contract), this necessitates the valuation and division of assets on separation or the death of a spouse. Common law…
Kelly Santini LLP’s Meghan O’Halloran has been elected to Governance Council of the Ontario Bar Association. The two year term begins in August 2016. Meghan is currently serving as the Chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division – East.
Kelly Santini’s Lisa Langevin was elected USLAW Network Inc.’s board of directors at the association’s recent annual meeting. Kelly Santini became USLAW’s first Canadian member in 2011. Today the network consists of over 100 law firms and 6,000 lawyers who work together to deliver consistent, cohesive and cost-effective legal services…
Kelly Santini LLP is pleased to welcome veteran Ottawa lawyer Paul Conlin and associate Zachary Gaulin to the firm. Paul has been a stalwart of the Ottawa legal community for over forty years. Their wide-ranging practice adds to the firm’s depth in the areas of family law, real estate, estate…