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Toronto Divorce lawyer can help avoid long, costly court battle

By michael - Last updated: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment

A new study by the former Ontario Chief of Justice has found that one-third of Ontario residents are currently fighting legal problems in civil court.

The survey also looked at the effects of these court issues on people’s health, saying that legal difficulties are disruptive to everyday life, cause immense stress and can affect work. Family and divorce law as well as child custody issues can be the most stressful, according to the report.

Even slightly more alarming, 27 per cent of those facing legal issues like family law disputes had turned to the internet for the majority of their information, while four per cent went to the police. Three per cent of the people utilized a legal aid clinic, but even the study notes that these clinics are more apt to provide assistance for those wrongfully dismissed from work or those who are applying for disability cheques, not those headed for or going through a divorce.

The internet can be a helpful resource, but no website is as knowledgeable or most importantly, as accurate as a family lawyer.

Few divorces are amicable, but not all divorces need to go through the court system in Ontario. A family lawyer can also introduce parties to the collaborative law process, which solves divorce and family law matters. This has both parties settling their problems through their divorce lawyers in an effort to agree upon and negotiate the disputed issues, without going to court. While most people want a relatively painless divorce process, avoiding long, costly divorce proceedings in court is also something very attractive to those facing divorce and custody disagreements.

This is where collaborative law and an Ontario family lawyer come in.

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