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Articles: October 2018

10/24/18

CBC Radio: “Breakup – We’re done. Now, what about the kids?”

In early October 2018, CBC radio broadcast a one hour show about the effect of divorce on children. The broadcast is called “Breakup,” and you can listen to it on the CBC website. The show covered many deep concepts of what is involved in a healthy divorce, and I will blog about each of them later. The lawyer in me needs to stress that we all use the word “divorce” regardless of whether the couple was married. The most important message of “Breakup” is that there can be healthy divorces with parenting plans that eliminate or minimize harm to children. The show uses interviews with adults who were children when their parents divorced, to illustrate how post-separation parenting plans have evolved in the past 50 years. At the beginning of the show are interviews with individuals whose parents divorced 40 or 50 years ago. The trauma and pain they went through during their parents’ divorce is evident, and they discuss how it continues to affect them to this day. At the end of the show are interviews with much younger individuals, whose parents established parenting arrangements that were unorthodox for the time, but which allowed the children to “still be...

10/05/18

Collaborative Divorce? Divorce Lawyers Collaborating? What is Collaborative Divorce?

I was at a social event the other night when someone overheard me say  Collaborative Divorce.  I was met with inquisitive facial expressions.   Divorce lawyers?   Collaborating?   What is this Collaborative Divorce stuff?   It seems the idea of divorce lawyers working together was quite amusing to them. The Collaborative Divorce process began in the United States by a lawyer by the name of Stuart Webb that was burned out and tired of fighting the fight.   He and many others had long recognized that courtrooms were not the best place for families to resolve their disputes.   The long,...



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