Collaborating
About Collaborative Divorce Edmonton
Our purpose is to promote healthy relationships, families, and communities
Collaborative Law is a consensual dispute resolution process method that aims to provide a more amicable and less adversarial approach to resolving legal disputes, and focuses on the needs and interests of the whole family.
Collaborative Divorce Edmonton is an association of over 100 Collaboratively-trained professionals including Family Lawyers, Financial Professionals, and Family Specialists who help families going through separation, divorce, or who want design their future lives together with cohabitation or prenuptial agreements.
Our members are geographically diverse, primarily in the Greater Edmonton and Grande Prairie areas, including St. Albert, Morinville, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Sherwood Park, Camrose, Lloydminster, St. Paul, and more. Our members provide in-person and remote services.
Our members are also members of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) and the Collaborative Divorce Alberta Association (CDAA). Collaborative Divorce Edmonton exists to facilitate the exchange of information and resources between Collaborative professionals, to provide training opportunities to new collaborative professionals and to our existing members, and to raise awareness of the Collaborative process in the Edmonton and Grande Prairie areas.
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The International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) is an international community of legal, mental health and financial professionals working together to create client-centered processes for resolving conflict. Its mission is to transform the way families resolve conflict by building a global community of Collaborative Practice and consensual dispute resolution professionals.
IACP has members in 42 states and 22 countries on 5 continents.
The Collaborative Divorce Association Alberta (CDAA) is a province-wide association which strives to advance Collaborative Practice in Alberta. Each major region within the province has an established local practice group with its membership being Collaborative professionals practicing within that area. Each practice group has designated a member to sit on the Board of CDAA to ensure that its regional interests are being met.