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.
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?