How to finalize your divorce, quickly and affordably.

Posted by Matt Lee on March 16th, 2020

Traditionally in a divorce each partner approaches their own divorce lawyers.

Those divorce lawyers then battle each other to gain ground for their clients.

This usually results in long divorce times, expensive legal fees, and even more pricier court fees.

Which makes the average divorce in Canada cost ,000 for each person!

Teryl Scott Lawyers Inc. created Divorcing Well which is a form of mediation that results in a completed divorce in only 5 weeks. For a flat fee that's less than ,000.

Teryl Scott Lawyers are family lawyers in Halifax for over 25 years. After seeing the problems with the divorce process that inspired them to create Divorcing Well.

Divorcing Well™ mediations are completed in just five weeks.  The parties provide the requested financial information within the first three weeks and attend each week’s meeting separately. 

In the fourth and fifth week, the draft separation agreement is ready to review. Final negotiations are completed with their personal family lawyers, the parties and mediator.

When the parties have been separated for a year, they then can have the Divorcing Well™ legal mediator draft the divorce documents and share this cost too.

What happens if the separation agreement cannot get it mediated in five weeks?

After five weeks, the parties have a clear understanding of what the outstanding issues are and what the likely legal outcomes would be if they go to court.  If one of the terms of the separation agreement cannot be agreed upon, then the parties have to bring that issue in front of a judge to resolve it.

Read more on their website for further details.