How To Get Started

If you think the Collaborative Family Law Process may work for you, these are the steps to take:

• Talk with your spouse about the Collaborative Family Law Process and share the information on this website.
• Both of you find a collaborative lawyer using the listings on this site.
• Each of you meet with your own collaborative lawyer from the Association of Collaborative Family Lawyers. Your collaborative lawyers can help you decide whether the Collaborative Family Law Process suits you.
• You may meet with more than one collaborative lawyer before making your selection.
• Each client meets first with his/her collaborative lawyer and then both clients and both collaborative lawyers attend the first 4-way Collaborative Family Law meeting.
• Both clients and both collaborative lawyers sign the Collaborative Family Law Contract of the Association of Collaborative Family Lawyers. In this contract you agree not to go to court. (You may take a look at sample contracts of the Calgary, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat Collaborative Family Lawyers on our links page.)