Mandatory Pre-Court Divorce Requirement
As of December 18, 2023, participation in an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process, such as mediation, is a mandatory divorce pre-court requirement.
Dora Dang is a Chartered Arbitrator, Chartered Mediator, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst ®, Registered Family Mediator of Alberta, and a Commissioner For Oaths in and for Alberta. She is the co-owner and co-founder of Leap! Divorce Solutions Ltd.
MARRIAGE STORY – AN EVERYDAY DIVORCE STORY
According to Statistics Canada, divorce affected over five million Canadians since 2011. The Netflix movie ‘Marriage Story’ illustrates how costly, destructive, and emotional divorce litigation is for the parties involved.
Parenting After Separation and Divorce
Meeting your parenting obligations can be one of the most complicated and challenging tasks during separation and divorce. It is difficult because of the need to coordinate parenting time. Furthermore, it is difficult for children to transition from one household to two. Therefore, clear communication with your children and your co-parent is paramount.
How to Avoid Common Pitfalls when Cohabiting
A breakdown in a relationship is not only emotionally traumatic, but is also financially devastating to the couple and their families. Here are some essential tips to handle the speed bumps and avoid a breakdown in the relationship.
How to Navigate Separation and Divorce
If you are experiencing a breakdown in your marriage and divorce is imminent, then consider the following information to prevent capsizing your ship as you sail into the storm.
Financial Consequences of Divorce
Divorce involves financial decisions. Understanding the financial consequences of divorce can save you time, money and frustration. If you are facing divorce, then consider the following.
Back to School Back to Basics
For couples with children who are recently separated or going through a divorce, getting your children ready for back to school and extra circular activities is like sailing in high winds. Here are some tips to help you sail the rough waters.
Effective Co-Parenting After Divorce
Like Calgary’s weather, communication with your former spouse can be unpredictable. When getting a divorce, communication is civil at the best of times. In some instances, the parties involved get downright uncooperative making it difficult to get things accomplished. Therefore, effective communication with your former spouse is the key to effective co-parenting after your divorce is finalized. Here are some tips to make it happen.
Start with Leap! Divorce Solutions
When a couple is facing divorce, the conventional process is for each individual to hire a lawyer and litigate. However, due to cost and adversarial nature of litigation, more couples are turning to mediation to settle their divorce. As a result, the number of divorce mediation practices outside the legal community has been rising. Not all divorce mediators are equal. So, how do you know you are choosing a qualified divorce mediator?
Divorce Mediation: An Alternative To Litigation
Litigation is the conventional method of divorce resolution. Couples seeking divorce are losing confidence in this method. This is because litigation is expensive, adversarial, and unable to cope with conflict. People cannot justify the legal costs and impairment of their wealth. People simply do not trust that a legal separation will be fair. While no one wants to think about separation and divorce, it is encouraging to know that there is an alternative to litigation and its pitfalls: divorce mediation.