Family Law

Divorce or separation can be one of life’s most difficult challenges. Competing personal and legal concerns which affect your children, your finances, and your future are inevitable.

Dawn Bennett has continually worked with clients to resolve their family law disputes through the use of collaborative law, strategic negotiations, mediations, and contested court proceedings. Dawn incorporates her listening skills with empathy, understanding, and strong negotiation and advocacy techniques.

Dawn’s family practice includes but is not limited to the following:
Collaborative Family Law Contested Court Proceedings Separation Agreements Strategic Negotiations Settlement Agreements Spousal support Family Property division Divorce	Child Protection Child Custody Child support Child Access and Visitation Paternity Disputes Grandparents’ Rights Legal opinions on foreign divorces for persons who wish to remarry in Canada

Collaborative Divorce

A better way for your family. Dawn uses Collaborative Divorce to facilitate more mutually satisfying results for her clients. In the Collaborative Divorce process both lawyers commit themselves to achieving a settlement for their clients without the intervention of the courts. Negotiations are conducted in a principled, dignified, and respectful manner. The clients and the lawyers sign an agreement confirming that they will not take the case to court.

In contested court proceedings, clients give their decision-making power over to a judge.

This may have permanent consequences for clients and their families. Conversely, the Collaborative Divorce process gives clients full control in determining the results obtained in their divorce.

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