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Demas Schaefer has a dedicated team of lawyers and paralegals that are equipped to help you through your divorce and separation. We know that choosing the right lawyer is paramount for a client – you need someone you can rely upon when things are at their worst and that you can trust to be at their best. Get to know our people and trust us to do right by you.
Calculating child support is usually pretty straight forward when one parent is the primary parent – determine income, number of children, then look it up in the guidelines. However, when you are in a shared parenting arrangement, child support is governed by section 9 of the Federal Child Support Guidelines.
Effective March 1, 2021 there are significant changes being made to the Divorce Act. These changes will affect everyone whose proceedings started ahead of March 1, 2021 that are still ongoing.
During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Courts in Alberta have altered their operations, policies and procedures with a view to helping to contain or prevent the spread of COVID-19 while maintaining, as much as possible, access to justice.