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Collaborative Family Law Information
Brant-Haldimand-Norfolk Collaborative Family Law Group
Public Documents
Public Documents
Canadian Collaborative Family Law Websites
British Columbia
Collaborative Divorce BC – The Humane Approach to DivorceProfessionals practicing Collaborative Divorce in Vancouver, BC
www.collaborativedivorcebc.org
Collaborative Divorce and Separation - Morrie Sacks
www.divorcecanada.com and
www.collaborativedivorce.com
Okanagan Collaborative Family Law Group representing practicing lawyers
in the Okanagan area of British Columbia.
www.collaborativefamilylaw.ca
Collaborative Family Law Group - The New Wave of Law Without Court
Professionals practicing Collaborative Divorce in Victoria, BC
www.collaborativefamilylawgroup.com
Lower Mainland Collaborative Family Law Group BC
www.nocourt.net
Alberta
Collaborative Family Lawyers of Canada. Lists practicing lawyers inCalgary, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Edmonton, Red Deer, Crossfield, Innisfail and Lacombe.
www.collaborativelaw.ca
Saskatchewan
Collaborative Lawyers of Saskatchewan Inc. Lists practicing lawyers in Assiniboia, Melfort,Moose Jaw, Swift Current, Weyburn, Regina and Saskatoon.
www.collabsask.com
Ontario
The following groups are members of the Ontario Collaborative Law Federation and have active websites:
The Collaborative Family Law Association of Durham Region representing lawyers from Oshawa, Newcastle, Pickering and Whitby.www.collaborativelawyersdurham.ca
The Hamilton-Burlington Collaborative Family Law Group representing practicing lawyers in Hamilton and Burlington
www.CollabFamLaw.com
The London & Middlesex Collaborative Law Group Collaborative Law Centre representing practicing lawyers in London
www.collaborativelawcentre.com
The Collaborative Law Network representing practicing lawyers in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario
www.collaborative-law.ca
The Collaborative Family Law Group representing practicing lawyers in Peel Halton region
www.collaborative-family-law.com
The Niagara Collaborative Law Group representing lawyers in Niagara region
www.collablaw-niagara.com
The Nipissing Collaborative Family Lawyers representing lawyers in North Bay
www.nbcfl.ca
The Quinte Collaborative Law Association representing lawyers around the Bay of Quinte
Belleville, Trenton and Brighton
www.QuinteCollaborativeLaw.org
The Collaborative Family Law Association of Waterloo Region representing lawyers in the Cambridge-Kitchener-Waterloo region
www.collaborativelaw-waterloo.com
York Collaborative Practice is an interdisciplinary group representing lawyers, mental health professionals and financial professionals in the York region, north of Toronto
www.yorkcollaborativepractice.com
Collaborative Practice Toronto is an interdisciplinary group representing lawyers, mental health professionals and financial professionals in the Metropolitan Toronto area
www.collaborativepracticetoronto.com
The following groups are members of the Ontario Collaborative Law Federation without a website:
Sarnia region
c/o Janet Whitehead at jwhitehead@sarnialaw.com
Simcoe County(Barrie) region
c/o Brian Galbraith at briangg@drlogick.com
Other Ontario Collaborative Law sites
FLC Collaborative Family Law Centre, Joel Miller's site with information about Collaborative Family Law Practice and other family law issueswww.familylawcentre.com/collaborative.html
Nova Scotia
The Association of Collaborative Family Law Lawyers of Nova Scotia representing lawyers in the province of Nova Scotiawww.collaborativefamilylawyers.ca
American Collaborative Family Law sites
The International Academy of Collaborative ProfessionalsView this site for the most complete list of Collaborative law organizations in North America.
www.collaborativepractice.com
Chip Rose is editor of the Collaborative Law section of Mediate.com. He has assembled a number of very good articles about Collaborative Family law.
www.mediate.com/collaborativelaw
Ninth Judicial District Court of Louisiana
This is the site set up by Judge Foote and referenced in his interview
www.familycourts.org
Collaborative Divorce, California
www.collaborativedivorce.com
The Collaborative Law Center, Cincinnati
www.collaborativelaw.com
Collaborative Law Institute, Minnesota
Pauline H. Tesler, Collaborative Lawyer, San Francisco
www.divorcenet.com/ca/tesler.html
Stuart G. Webb, Collaborative Lawyer and Collaborative founder, Minnesota
divorcenet.com/mn/webb.html
Chip Rose, Co-Director of The Mediation Center, Santa Cruz, California
www.mediate.com/crose
Coalition for Cooperative Divorce (CCD), California (much good resource information)
www.nocourtdivorce.com
Collaborative Law Articles
Canadian Bar Association:Collaborative Lawyering
by Stephen Coughlan, Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University
Link
Canadian Bar Association:
I'll never see you in court! The rise of collaborative family law
by Janice Mucalov, a lawyer and writer based in Vancouver
Link
Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia
Collaborative law: The art of asking open questions
by Nancy Cameron from her CLE materials for the Family Law Conference - 2001
Link
Lawyers Weekly USA
Divorce Without the Bloodshed
by Elaine McArdle
lawyersweeklyusa.com/alert/usa/divorce.htm
Collaborative Mediation:
An Alternative Approach to Case Management in Family Law Cases
Article in Washington State Bar New, March 2000
www.wsba.org/barnews/2000/03/desonier.htm
Collaborative Law Section of Mediate.com
Articles, Discussion and Forms
Chip Rose, Editor,
www.mediate.com/collaborativelaw