Michael Cochrane, LL.B. has been practicing law in Ontario for 30 years and is a partner with the firm Ricketts, Harris LLP. He is the author of a number of books, including Surviving Your Divorce: A Guide to Canadian Family Law (Wiley); For Better or For Worse: The Canadian Guide to Marriage Contracts and Cohabitation Agreements (Wiley); Surviving Your Parents’ Divorce: A Guide for Young Canadians (Wiley).

Mr. Cochrane has hosted a legal affairs show on BNN entitled, “Strictly Legal” and has appeared as a guest legal expert on many radio and T.V. programmes, including “Canada AM,” CBC’s “Counterspin” and “As it Happens”, as well as TVO. He writes a regular column for Zoomer Magazine and speaks frequently on a variety of legal topics to financial planners, companies, associations and the public.


Wiley Canada will release two important new guides from Michael Cochrane in Spring 2010: Do We Need a Marriage Contract? The Complete Canadian Guide to Understanding How a Marriage Contract Can Strengthen Your Life Together and Committed and Moving in Together: The Complete Canadian Guide to Understanding How a Cohabitation Agreement Can Strengthen Your Life Together.

 

Strictly Legal, Things You Absolutely Need To Know About Canadian Law
Strictly Legal, Things You Absolutely Need To Know About Canadian Law features answers to the most common legal questions Canadians ask and is published by Insomniac Press. A second edition is in the works.

 Strictly Legal, Things You Absolutely Need To Know About Canadian Law features answers to the most common legal questions Canadians ask and is published by Insomniac Press. Strictly Legal II, More Things You Absolutely Need To Know About Canadian law will be available from Insomniac in October 2009.

Surviving Your Divorce, A Guide to Canadian Family Law
Currently available in a revised and updated fourth edition from Wiley Canada. A fifth edition is planned.