SEPARATION & DIVORCE SUPPORT FOR COUPLES | SASKATCHEWAN

Get Started with the Roadmap Consult™

Let me help you both avoid defaulting into separate, volatile emotional reactions, conflicting late-night ChatGPT responses and poorly-fitting, borrowed separation stories.

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Before mediation, before lawyering up and before you both in separate directions, start with the Roadmap Consult™.‍

To get started, please watch the video and fill out the form below.

What a Roadmap Consult™ Is (and Is Not):

What It Is

✅ A 90-minute consult for BOTH of you, focused on information, education, and strategy.

✅ A chance for you BOTH to hear the same reliable information at the same time, in plain language.

✅Mutual work for now structured in the most effective format for the circumstances (in person/virtual/combination) as decided by Lana

✅A supervised connection with you both at the same time for now with possible next steps including private 1-1 work, with each of you separately, if continuing to work together.

✅ An opportunity for you BOTH to understand the big pieces of a separation agreement:

— Parenting - Decision Making, Parenting Schedules
— Income (What You Earn) and Child/Spousal Support
— Property (What You Own - Both +/-)

✅ Practical information and education to help you BOTH develop realistic expectations related to the time it takes and the anticipated costs, including why other professionals may need to be involved (lawyers, accountants, valuators) and how to most skillfully do so

✅ A multi-disciplined, professional assessment of your current dynamics resulting in a recommendation of what process option (Lawyer to Lawyer Negotiation, Mediation, Collaborative Divorce, Parenting Coordination, Arbitration, Court Process) may be most effective for your circumstances

What It Is Not

❌ Not “one and done” - although you may want a quick fix to “done and over” - that is not realistic - this is a solid first step to make the rest of this less chaotic and less expensive.

❌ Not legal advice – I am not acting as a lawyer for either of you and I don’t give legal advice.

❌ Not mediation - yet – no proposals, no negotiation, no agreements - mediation can be a next step, not the starting point

❌Not a way to get a Certificate of Participation- Certificates (related to the new “Early family Dispute Resolution” laws redirecting people to out-of-court work) are tied to genuine efforts within a specific process like mediation

❌ Not therapy or marriage counselling

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Who a Roadmap Consult™ Is For

People in Saskatchewan who are:

  • Thinking about separating and want to understand what that would actually involve in real terms.

  • Newly separated, unsure where to start, and scared of “getting it wrong.”

  • A bit further in and realizing they need to take a step back - that they never really understood the big picture, and the current approach isn’t working.

  • Parents who want to protect their kids as much as possible, even when things feel raw and unfair.

  • People who truly understand know they will need help through this experience - they don’t want to wage war if they can help it, but also don’t want to be naïve.

Why Start Here:

(and How Things like EFDR, Approved Service Providers and Certificates Fit In)

Separation and divorce are hard. The unavoidable reality is that many separating people are making major, long-term decisions about how they parent, what happens to their money, where they live, and what they own - all in the midst of a (sometimes unwanted and resented) grief storm.

The old default was:

  • Hire separate lawyers with different backgrounds, focus, and experiences.

  • Get different-at-best and competing-at-worst legal advice.

  • Try to make decisions, avoiding billable hours as much as possible, while exhausted, scared, and overloaded with sorting through stories from friends, family, and the internet.

The new reality:

Since July 2022, Saskatchewan’s changes to separation and divorce laws called “Early Family Dispute Resolution” (EFDR) are redirecting separating people to work with “approved service providers” who are capable of giving clients “Certificates of Participation” in out-of-court services like mediation, collaborative divorce, arbitration, and parenting coordination.

These laws are catching up with what many of us have known for years, starting with out-of-court processes is usually safer and more responsible than going straight to court.

A Roadmap Consult™ is my way of:

  • Giving both of you a shared, realistic picture of what’s ahead, knowing you are likely each in very different places.

  • Skillfully directing you to the most appropriate out-of-court process.

  • Starting you off in the right direction at a time when getting on the same page is often really hard.

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What Can Flow From a Roadmap Consult™

A Roadmap Consult™ doesn’t ask you to pick a process from a menu while you’re in crisis. Instead, we use what we learn in that 90 minutes to recommend a best-fit path. Here are some of the possibilities that might flow from a Roadmap Consult™ — either with me or with other professionals:

What We Cover (In Plain Language):

In your Roadmap Consult™, we’ll typically:

  • Explain why the old “hire a lawyer and go to court” is no longer an option—and why the new laws are talking about things like mediation and Certificates of Participation.

  • Outline what creating a separation agreement entails in terms of realistic time and cost, what other audiences need it to address and its core pieces, including:

    • Parenting arrangements and decision-making about your children

    • Income, child support and spousal support

    • Property and how it’s divided

  • Discuss separation and divorce terms in real-world language so you’re not nodding along to words you don’t understand.

  • Cut through myths, assumptions, and borrowed stories (from AI bots, Google, TikTok, friends, or that one loud aunt) that don’t actually apply to you.

  • Flag common mistakes about things like dates and language that make things harder and more expensive than they need to be — and how to avoid them.

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You don’t have to decide any of this before your Roadmap Consult™.

That’s the point — we use that session to design the next step with you, not hand you a menu and wish you luck.

To get started, please watch the video and fill out the form below.