What is the effect of having independent legal advice on a separation agreement?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Tessema v.Hagos, 2016 ONSC 1887 (CanLII):
The presence of independent legal advice usually will negate one spouse’s influence over the other and minimize the prospect of an agreement being set aside for duress, undue influence, or unconcscionability (see McGregor v. VanTilborg 2005 CarswellBC 933) (see text p. 1148).
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