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How Personal injury law, Family law, and Real estate law differ

The society today has been filled with conflicts revolving from the some of the critical aspects of the human life. Due to these immense battles between people, governments through the constitution has set out important and comprehensive laws to govern these issues and solve the disputes that have cropped up. Most of these misunderstanding and confrontation are as a result of conflicting interests between parties on matters that are held valuable by the society. Some of these factors include personal health, land and property ownership and family. It is because of these three different crucial life aspects that there are varying laws set in place to rule on them separately which are personal injury law Spruce Grove, family law and real estate law. The following is a comprehensive explanation of the difference between the three laws that regard very fundamental aspects of the basic human life.

 

Personal injury law is initiated by the government and involves legal payments or compensations for persons who have been injured or in an accident due to the negligence of another. It all starts when a complainant files a case against another individual, company, institution, organization claiming that the defendant was reckless and careless leading to the accident involved or injuries that were obtained. In this case the plaintiff is looking to be compensated for the damages and injuries caused by proving that the accused had fault by proving credible evidence to rule them guilty of the accusations. The compensation can also be done informally without the help of a court whereby the two parties negotiate and come up with a written agreement on how the compensation is to be done.

 

Family law, on the other hand, is instituted to preside over family matters and domestic relations respectively. Family law is set out to handle conflicts between individuals or parties where by marriage, adoption, divorce, surrogacy, paternity, child protection, child custody and juvenile law are involved. All these are critical conflict instigators and require set out laws to deal with disputes arising. Juvenile law handles issues of family where by those that do not fall under legal age are involved as defendants and cannot be tried at a civil court of law since they are regarded as children.

 

Thirdly there is the St. Albert real estate law that is set out to govern who own a specific piece of land and the property on it and who uses what that is on the land and the land itself. Property and land ownership has been one of the greatest cause of dispute between individual as this is matter regarding money and wealth, being some of the things that most people really care about in today's world. More specifically in the scenarios where wills left by the deceased are not clear or there isn't any at all, the real estate law plays a big role in avoiding and resolving disputes arising.

 

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