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Privacy Issues When Separating from your Partner/Spouse

When separating parties often are faced with having to disentangle their digital lives from their partner, so to protect their personal information. This includes ensuring separation of access to many different online accounts and their passwords, and cloud computing with often automatic uploading of information, and increasingly important access to social media accounts. Separating spouses are strongly encouraged to review and protect their information with new account passwords, includ...

DESK APPLICATION PROCESS

The Desk Application Process allows you to apply for specific court relief in a court order by submitting documents to the courthouse for a Justice to review this application. As part of this desk application, you do not appear before a Justice of the Court, and in turn there is no opportunity to provide oral submissions in support of your desk application. As part of the Alberta Court of King’s Bench desk application process, this package will be reviewed first by a court clerk to confir...

ALBERTA COURTS: FAMILY FOCUSED PROTOCOL AND MANDATORY INTAKE TRIAGE (MIT)

On January 2, 2026, the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta launched a series of new processes. If you are entering the system for the first time you will be assigned a Mandatory Intake Triage (MIT) Justice who will meet with you to assess and deal with any interim issues in your family/divorce matter. The process is called Family Focused Protocol (FFP).

Proceeding with a guardianship or trusteeship application?

When an individual lacks the mental or physical capacity to care for themselves it can be extremely difficult for those close to that person, including friends and family members already engaged in a caring role. It is a very difficult circumstance as those tasked with caring for individuals that do no have capacity likely do not have authority to make the decisions that need to be made for this person. Further, individuals may find themselves being told they have made decisions that ...

Frustrated with trying to have your legal matter heard?

Family legal cases are rarely well served in extensive litigation. In family law, litigation often creates further barriers to move matters to resolution, by taking months and years to resolve. Litigation also takes on a winner and loser mentality which even more problematically often results in a loser and loser situation for both parties. Nothing is more frustrating to individuals to see their matter fractured with no potential resolution on the horizon as they are entrenche...

Legal Coaching

Here at Family Central Law we understand that you may need assistance on a limited scope basis where you are provided with tools and skills to manage your legal matter. Clients regularly seek guidance when they are navigating complicated legal matters and wish to have the support and insight of a lawyer in a format that works for them. This could mean meeting in person where we can provide legal information and case specific insights or providing these services by way of video/telephone...

High Income Spousal Support and Factors Included in Spousal Support Calculations

When calculating spousal support in family law cases, calculating the amount of spousal support will depend on specific factors. As a starting point when entitlement has been confirmed or assumed, family lawyers rely upon the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (“the Guidelines”) to calculate spousal support. These Guidelines were provided by a Government of Canada working group back in 2005 and have been updated annually. The Guidelines provide calculations based on the base factors of...

“In the Best Interests” of the Child- What Does It Really Mean?

The best interests test is a highly fact driven analysis, which is why it is important for parents to be aware of the factors listed in Section 16(3) of the Divorce Act. When parents do not agree on their parenting schedule and responsibilities, they need to be prepared to show why the parenting arrangement they are seeking is in the best interest of their children, and not simply what they desire as parents. Given the expansive list contained in Section 16(3), parents need to be mindful tha...

COVID-19 – Vaccinations for Children Under the Age of 16

Many parents remain divided on whether to vaccinate their children. Currently, the very recently developed vaccines approved within the last few months by Health Canada are approved for Children under the age of 16. It is the expectation that COVID-19 vaccines will be approved and in turn become available for children under the age of 16 in the future. To this end, all parents, and especially those separated / divorced parents now co-parenting their children, will have to resolve any compet...