We are pleased to announce that Watson Goepel Family Law lawyer, R. Craig Neville, is a 2021 recipient of the honorary title of Queen’s Counsel (Q.C.).

I’m not quite sure if this is a blog or a rant - or perhaps it’s something in between? In any case, it’s about how parents, lawyers, and indirectly the courts, determine the allocation of fees shared by parents who work with a Parenting Coordinator.

August 14, 2020

Family Law

Parenting Coordination and fee equity: What’s fair?

Craig Neville, K.C.

I’m not quite sure if this is a blog or a rant – or perhaps it’s something in between? In any case, it’s about how parents, lawyers, and indirectly the courts, determine the allocation of fees shared by parents who work with a Parenting Coordinator.

Uncertainty creates anxiety, and when you couple the anxiety of unresolved matrimonial disputes with the unprecedented uncertainty of living in a pandemic world, not only do spouses suffer elevated stress, but their children experience it as well. Delay only exacerbates all of these variables.

July 10, 2020

Family Law

Divorce law during a pandemic: the rise of arbitration

Craig Neville, K.C.

“Clients come to lawyers with problems they want solved, not issues they want litigated.” – Honourable Roy McMurtry