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.

Please note that, during the summer of 2024, specific time slots in the Montreal district will be dedicated to requests concerning the exercise of parental authority related to school choice.

These time slots in room 2.01 will be available on Thursdays and Fridays, July 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, and 26, 2024, and August 1 and 2, 2024. The rules for scheduling a hearing date provided in the directives of the Montreal district (articles 79 to 83) apply to these requests.

Only requests of this nature with a predicted hearing duration of one day or less (including the judge’s reading time) can be scheduled on one of these dates.