The best Calgary Family Mediation Arbitration lawyers educate their worried family clients that not all family law disputes have to go to court. Our skilled and experienced Calgary Family Mediation Arbitration lawyers offer our clients an alternative to the traditional adversarial court process by resolving their family law disputes through a respectful, cost-effective and binding resolution process. Our Calgary Family Mediation Arbitration Lawyers downtown Calgary family law office in located in Bankers Hall in downtown Calgary.
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Why would you want a top Calgary Family Mediation Arbitration lawyer help you resolve your family law disputes?
The key principles for mediation and arbitration of Calgary family law disputes are:
- win / win solution – going to Court often results in a “winner take all” solution – the Court usually sides with one person over the other. Calgary Family Mediation Arbitration lawyers can help you come up with a unique, creative and mutually beneficial solution that can often be “outside the box” of a traditional court settlement;
- good-faith negotiations – separating couples who choose Calgary Family Mediation and Arbitration to resolve their family law disputes often want to be fair and reasonable in their negotiations. Calgary Family Mediation Arbitration lawyers can help the separating couple negotiate in a respectful, honest and transparent manner to come to a lasting settlement;
- confidential – the Court process is a public process – (almost) everything is open to the public to see and hear, including the reasons for the breakdown of the relationship, financial records and property. Calgary Family Mediation and Arbitration, including the negotiations, financial information and settlement arrangements, is strictly confidential and not open to the public;
- sharing of costs and expenses – resolving family law disputes often involves the use of outside professionals who are experts in their area – child psychologists, parenting co-ordinators, coaches, appraisers, financial experts and accountants all add benefit to resolving family law disputes – But they have a cost. Calgary Family Mediation and Arbitration lawyers can help separating spouses come to an agreement as to how these costs can be shared by the spouses.
Calgary Family Mediation Arbitration Lawyers 403-444-5503
What are the key issues a Calgary Family Mediation and Arbitration lawyer can help you resolve?
These are the key areas to resolve in family law mediation and arbitration:
- Divorce – the majority of marriages end on the ground of being separated for over one year, but there are other grounds that can be raised for a divorce;
- Children – children should always be the priority in a family, and when parents are separating, many decisions about the children will have to be made, such as: Which parent they will be living with; How much each parent will be seeing the children; How the children will be financially supported, not just on a daily basis but for ongoing childcare, health and dental, schooling and extracurricular activities;
- Spousal or Partner Support – whether you are married or not, financial support for the separating partner is an important issue. The length and amount of this support can often be agreed upon by the separating spouses, such as by looking at the spouses’ budgets or spousal support advisory guidelines ;
- Division of Property – while property is usually split equally or evenly, there are many things that can be exempted from the division of property, including gifts, inheritances, personal injury awards, and property owned at the time of marriage.
Peter Graburn looks forward to helping you mediate, engage in the collaborative family law process or even arbitrating your Calgary family matter. Peter is a member of the:
- International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
- Association of Collaborative Family Professionals (Edmonton)
- Association of Collaborative Professionals (Calgary)
We focus on medium to high net worth financial disputes and difficult custody and parenting time issues where privacy, discretion and legal finesse is paramount.
Call Peter Graburn one of our Senior Calgary Family Mediation Arbitration Lawyers at our downtown Calgary Bankers Hall location at 403-444-5503.
