Note: The following "PRACTICAL GUIDE" and the subsequent remarks primarily aim to assist the public in becoming familiar with relevant legal procedures in family law. Additionally, this guide seeks to enhance comprehension of the processes and steps involved when a couple decides to separate.

Whether you are married or not, mediation is a means of preventing disputes, available in Quebec to settle any dispute you may have in family matters (separation, divorce, division of the value of the family patrimony and liquidation of the matrimonial regime for married persons, child custody, alimony, division of the property of unmarried parties, etc.).

Contrary to popular belief, the role of a family law attorney goes beyond representing clients in contested disputes before courts. Indeed, the scope of their role is much broader.