Canada and Germany Estate, Family, Commercial and Administrative Law Representation
In this age of globalization, individuals, families and businesses around the world are more inter-connected than ever. The increasing global inter-connectedness of Canadian businesses, families and individuals has generated the need for lawyers who have the skills to handle an array of multi-jurisdictional legal matters in an efficient, timely and cost-effective fashion.
Within Canada, our three fully qualified Canadian lawyers deal with many cross-jurisdictional matters on behalf of Ontario clients from the Greater Toronto Area and beyond, including those whose cases have factual and/or legal connections to one or more of the other common law provinces of Canada. We have achieved numerous successful results during our many years of practice, and we diligently apply the insights we have gleaned through decades of experience to help resolve our clients' particular legal issues.
Our lawyers have a wealth of experience in handling contentious cases and non-contentious matters, often highly complex in nature, including situations involving:
- Wills and estates
- Family law
- Commercial litigation
- German-English litigation services
- Enforcement of foreign judgments
At Polten & Associates in Toronto, we have a twenty-year history of serving as a gateway between the legal worlds of Germany and Canada within the evolving global economy. Our extensive experience encompasses conducting Ontario court actions on behalf of German clients, as well as arranging the conduct of legal actions on behalf of Ontario residents against private individuals, business enterprises and institutions in German-speaking Europe.
The Advantage You Want
Our background of experience is especially valuable to our clients when we deal with matters for which fluency at a professional level in English and German, in combination with an understanding of both legal systems, is an advantage. In a discipline so dependent on words, intended meanings are often lost in translation by those not sufficiently competent in both languages and sufficiently acquainted with both legal systems. Such blunders of communication can have serious repercussions for the legal results ultimately achieved.
Our specialist expertise in dealing with such cross-jurisdictional legal issues includes that of our German-trained legal and administrative assistant and is augmented by our network of contacts with law firms and legal practitioners across Canada and German-speaking Europe, including Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Key members of our Europe-based network of contacts are over 200 notaries, lawyers and judges who participated as Referendare, Praktikanten, Doktoranden and/or Studenten in our sought-after mentoring program during the past two decades and who now occupy a broad range of responsible positions throughout Germany.
Sample Case
Our clients were German heirs to an estate, the assets of which were located in Canada and the United States. An Ontario trustee had been appointed. The Ontario trustee refused to distribute the estate to its heirs, and placed many legal and logistical obstacles in their way, including hiding assets and neglecting to put properties on the market. We succeeded in having the Ontario trustee removed, and subsequently obtained a substantial settlement for our clients.
Contact a Toronto Lawyer for Your Cross-Border Needs
To discuss your unique cross-border legal needs with a knowledgeable lawyer, contact us by calling from the Toronto area 647-724-4175 or from elsewhere toll free 1-866-322-6521.
