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Mediation provides the ideal environment for the settlement of your family law files

Separation agreements

Your separation agreement will be vital to

Separation without mediation

We negotiate the terms for your separation agreement if your former partner has their own lawyer. If we are not mediating between you and your former partner, Jacqueline will be acting as your lawyer only – advocating only for you and advancing only your interests.

Separating from your partner brings many complicated and important legal aspects to the process. Even when you are your partner feel you are close to an agreement, there are some important consideration you may not have thought about.

A full separation agreement will deal with all of your rights and obligations whether you have been married or in a common law relationship:

  • Parenting issues
  • Child support
  • Spousal support
  • Marital home
  • Pensions and health benefits
  • Property division
  • Estate issues and waivers
Separation with mediation

In mediation, you and your former partner will decide together how to deal with all of the issues of your separation.

Once you come to an agreement on all of the issues (or even some of them), we will prepare your separation agreement based on your joint decisions.

Separating from your partner brings many complicated and important legal aspects to the process. Even when you are your partner feel you are close to an agreement, there are some important consideration you may not have thought about.

A full separation agreement will deal with all of your rights and obligations whether you have been married or in a common law relationship:

  • Parenting issues
  • Child support
  • Spousal support
  • Marital home
  • Pensions and health benefits
  • Property division
  • Estate issues and waivers

Parenting Plans

There is more to parenting than just working out the custody of your children.

Some parents want a more structure in their plan and others want more flexibility, but a parenting plan will cover all aspects of parenting:

  • regular residence schedule (when your children will reside in each of your homes)
  • holiday and summer schedules (so you and your children can make holiday plans)
  • how important decisions are made about the education, health and the religious upbringing of your children
  • how you will discipline your children
  • how you plan to communicate about your children 
  • arrangements for your children’s travel

Cohabitation Agreements and Marriage Contracts

Signing an agreement does not mean that you plan to break up!  

An agreement can govern what happens if one of you passes away before the other, if one of you is incapacitated or if third parties advance a claim against you

You should definitely have a cohabitation agreement or a marriage contract if your situation includes any of these factors:

  • There are children from a previous relationship
  • There is a previous spouse who receives spousal support from you
  • One of you owns your own business
  • You own a home or other real estate
  • There are assets that you do not wish to share equally
  • One of you enters the relationship with substantial assets
  • One of you enters the relationship with complicated assets (like a shared business, stock options, etc)
  • There are any aspects of the law that you feel would be unfair to your own situation

Estate and Elder Mediation

Mediation can help you:

  • If you disagree with other relatives about the care of your elderly relatives
  • If your loved one has passed away and there is disagreement between the beneficiaries
  • If you are worried that there has been elder abuse or undue influence of your loved one either before or after they pass away

Wills preparation

If you need to update your Power of Attorney, or if you don’t have an existing Power of Attorney, now is a good time to contact us. In July 2020 the Enduring Powers of Attorney Act came into force in New Brunswick. This new Act changed a lot of things about Powers of Attorney, including how they work and how they are prepared.

Commissioned and Notarized Documents

Either Jacqueline or William can attend to formalizing documents for you. An affidavit has to be signed in the presence of a commissioner of oaths.  There are specific requirements for this process

A document that needs to be notarized requires a special seal

William is a Commissioner of Oaths

Jacqueline is a Notary Public and a Commissioner of Oaths