Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Divorce in Edmonton



Legal analysts observe that divorce rates are getting higher every year. This fact is alarming for divorce has changed the way we see life as we know it. It makes us wonder if making divorce a legal destroys the family institution as a unit. It is our general understanding that the purpose of marriage is to build a social institution, the basic core of us as a society.

 Divorce ruins everything, right? That is an easy realization if you are outside the marriage in question. If we put ourselves on troubled couples’ shoes, we realize that there are emotions involved. Each has the ideal relationship that goes on after marriage. You dream of him as your one and only husband for the rest of your life. Buy a big house with white picket fences and have two children.


All of a sudden everything falls apart. You realized you don’t know your partner as well as you thought you did. Who knows what’s going through his/her head? Misunderstanding became arguments, suddenly you are hurting each other and it came to a point where you can’t take it anymore. Couples should understand that after divorce the family unit has not been ruined totally. Your children still has their father or mother but they are not together during dinner time. Parents can still have interaction through school events. Now you consider the event more important than creating drama between the two of you. You have your friends and he/she has his/her own now. The unit is there but considers it different from before. Through time issues will pass. A new unit family unit has been build; one where the future of the children are more important.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The Trouble with Contested Alberta Divorce – Uncontested is Better!


We can’t always get what we want, to paraphrase the song.  An Alberta divorce usually becomes the final option when both man and woman in a married relationship are unable to see eye-to-eye on things.  And the last thing you want is for that divorce to become contested.

How can a divorce become contested?  Well, there are many reasons.  One of them is custody.  Talks about custody can turn into a battle of “he said” versus “she said” over how the other party prefers to do his/her parenting.  One party can call the other an “unfit parent” and it could degenerate from there.  Accusations of infidelity and spousal abuse can also convolute things and make a divorce contested.  The party being accused of such would deny what the other party is saying.  And when a divorce becomes contested, what invariably happens is the whole thing being decided by a judge, in a court of law.  When filing for divorce, you want to be in control of the situation.  That’s not going to happen often if a divorce is a contested one.

What you should aim for instead is an uncontested divorce.  There are many ways you and your spouse can come to terms, such as mediation and arbitration.  Uncontested divorces are far less stressful on both husband and wife, and even the children, if any.  Most couples who go through this type of divorce end it all in good terms with one another.  There will never be such a thing as a really “good divorce”, but if your Alberta divorce is uncontested, at least you know you’re in control of things.

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