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.
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.