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Archive: August 5, 2025
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Understanding your legal rights can help you make informed decisions. Explore articles from Weir Bowen on legal issues affecting individuals and families across Alberta, written to make complex topics easier to understand. The contents of these posts are for general information only, and should not be construed as legal advice.
The contents of these posts are for general information only, and should not be construed as legal advice.
Protecting Children’s Settlement Funds: What Parents Should Know About Alberta’s Minors’ Property Act
When a child is injured and receives a settlement through a personal injury claim, protecting that money becomes a top priority. In Alberta, the Minors’ Property Act provides a legal framework to ensure that settlement funds awarded to minors are managed responsibly and used for their benefit.INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The lands on which Edmonton sits and the North Saskatchewan River that runs through it have been the sites of natural abundance, ceremony and culture, travel and rest, relationship building, making, and trading for Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. Edmonton is located within Treaty 6 Territory and within the Metis homelands and Metis Nation of Alberta Region 4. We acknowledge this land as the traditional territories of many First Nations such as the Nehiyaw (Cree), Denesuline (Dene), Nakota Sioux (Stoney), Anishinaabe (Saulteaux) and Niitsitapi (Blackfoot).
Weir Bowen acknowledges the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit who have lived in and cared for these lands for generations. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. We make this acknowledgement as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory we reside on or are visiting.