Phillips-Berard, Wendy M.

I assist people with many of the day-to-day legal issues facing families, including transitioning through a separation, planning for death or incapacity, and purchasing and selling family homes. I am very interested in helping people sort through the confusion and uncertainty around a major life change, in educating them about their legal rights and obligations and supporting people in finding a new path forward.

Over the last 10 years, I have been specifically developing skills using Collaborative Practice to help people resolve the issues that arise on separating from a spouse, including how to parent children, how to financially support children, how to allocate family property, and how to plan for the future.

I am a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) and I am active in our local Association of Collaborative Family Professionals (Edmonton), having acted as Recording Secretary from 2006 to 2009, sat on the Executive as a Member-at-Large from 2006 to 2017, and I took on the role of Registrar in 2019. I have also been on the ACFP(E) Forms, Precedents, and Protocols Committee since 2007.