About
A practice organized around the will, the title and the agreement
Wills, land titles and family agreements depend on one another. This page sets out what Sidhu Legal takes on, what it doesn't, and how it relates to Ng Sidhu Law.
The short answer
Sidhu Legal is a law practice in Surrey, British Columbia, working in three areas: wills and estates, real estate, and family law agreements. Its clients are mostly people in Surrey and the Lower Mainland who are about to sign something that will matter for years, or who have just been handed a job they didn't ask for, such as acting as an executor or dealing with a home after a separation.
Sidhu Legal is a member of the Ng Sidhu Law association of independent law firms. The family side of the practice is limited to agreements, uncontested divorce, and mediation and arbitration. Contested family cases, personal injury, ICBC, criminal and immigration work are outside it.
Why do these three areas of law sit in one practice?
The three sit together because each document can undo another. A will can't pass a home held in joint tenancy, a separation agreement doesn't change a title on its own, and a cohabitation agreement can say one thing about a house while the register says another. Working in all three means asking how each document affects the other two.
In practice the questions run across all three. Someone buying with a partner has to decide how title will be held and whether their wills match it. Someone signing a separation agreement needs to know what moving the home into one name will take from the lender and the Land Title Office, and what their will now says. An executor with a house to deal with has to find out how it was held before anything is listed for sale.
How is Sidhu Legal related to Ng Sidhu Law?
Sidhu Legal is a member of the Ng Sidhu Law association of independent law firms. Each has its own website, and the two cover different work. This site deals only with Sidhu Legal's three areas: wills and estates, real estate, and family agreements. Ng Sidhu Law's site, ngsidhu.com, deals with its own practice.
Which matters does Sidhu Legal take on, and which are outside it?
Sidhu Legal takes on wills, powers of attorney, probate and estate questions; purchases, sales, refinances and changes to title; and family agreements, uncontested divorce, and mediation or arbitration. Contested family court cases, personal injury and ICBC claims, criminal charges and immigration matters are outside this practice.
The three areas
Wills & Estates
The documents you sign while you can, and the work an executor faces after a death: wills, trusts, powers of attorney, probate and the claims a will can face.
Real Estate
How your name goes on a title, what the register protects, and what a purchase, sale, family transfer or new mortgage changes for you later.
Family Agreements
Written terms for moving in, marrying or separating, an uncontested divorce, and mediation or arbitration when a few points are still open.
Where one event touches all three, the guides follow it through in order.
Common questions
Does Sidhu Legal take personal injury, ICBC, criminal or immigration matters?
No. Those areas are outside this practice, and so are family cases that have to be decided by a judge. Ng Sidhu Law's website, ngsidhu.com, covers them. Sidhu Legal's family work is limited to agreements, uncontested divorce, and mediation or arbitration.
Where does Sidhu Legal work from?
The office is in Surrey, at Unit 1104, 13737 96 Avenue. Most clients live or own property in Surrey and the rest of the Lower Mainland. The contact page has the full address, phone number and form.
Tell us what you're working on.
A short call is usually enough to tell you what's involved, what it will take, and whether you need us at all.