Collaborative Divorce Alberta Blog

Making the decision to separate or divorce is difficult, and people contemplating this course of action often have many questions and concerns about the process. One common concern is whether their personal or financial details, or details of their property division or parenting arrangements can or will become public knowledge. In this blog post, we’ll review the privacy aspects of the collaborative divorce process, and compare them with those of the adversarial divorce process.   Understanding Collaborative Divorce versus Traditional Divorce Collaborative divorce is a process that aims to minimize conflict between parties while they resolve common issues such as parenting, child and spousal support, and dividing assets and debt, by emphasizing cooperation, full disclosure, and honest communication between spouses. Collaboratively trained lawyers, financial specialists, and family specialists work together with the parties to assist them in generating different options to resolve their issues, deciding together which of those choices are preferable, and reaching agreement to implement those solutions that are most appropriate in their particular circumstances. While the collaborative financial and family specialists are neutral 3rd parties, the lawyers are not. This ensures that the parties will continue to receive legal advice throughout the process, and their interests will...