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What Happens When Your Ex Refuses to Follow a Parenting Order?

When a parenting order is in place, both parents are legally required to follow its terms. These orders are designed to provide stability, consistency, and predictability for children after separation or divorce. If your former partner/spouse is not following a court order, the situation can be frustrating, stressful, and upsetting. Understanding your legal options can help you respond effectively while protecting your rights. Once a parenting order is issued, both parents must follow ...

The Maintenance Enforcement Program and Its Online Registration Process

If you are dealing with unpaid child support, spousal support, or partner support in Alberta, the Maintenance Enforcement Program (“MEP”) can be an important tool to help enforce court-ordered child support and spousal support payments. Once you submit your registration and it has been processed, MEP can start the enforcement and collection of child and spousal support. MEP has significant enforcement powers if either support payments are not made. MEP registration has now started to a...

Understanding the Urgent Application Court Process in Alberta

Family law matters will sometimes require immediate attention from the Court. These situations mean that individuals cannot wait for lengthy return times to court through . In these circumstances, an urgent chambers application will be needed. The Alberta Court of King’s Bench website confirms that urgent matters include situations such as: risk of violence or immediate harm; applications for exclusive possession of the family home when safety is a concern; risk of a child being rem...

How do you get divorced?

If you or your spouse are considering legally ending your marriage, there are essentially two different kinds of divorce available to you in Alberta. Under federal law, you may file for divorce through a contested divorce or uncontested divorce process. When entering the divorce process either together or separately, there are many far-reaching implications to consider when ending a marriage – such as decision making and parenting time (custody) of children, property, interim finances and...

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...

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What Happens When Your Ex Refuses to Follow a Parenting Order?

The Maintenance Enforcement Program and Its Online Registration Process

Understanding the Urgent Application Court Process in Alberta

How do you get divorced?

Privacy Issues When Separating from your Partner/Spouse

DESK APPLICATION PROCESS

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

Proceeding with a guardianship or trusteeship application?

Frustrated with trying to have your legal matter heard?

Legal Coaching

Trusted Counsel for Calgary Family Law Matters