The Canadian Bar Association has published a helpful checklist of money-saving tips that assists in dealing with any potential financial consequences of relationship breakdown. Recognizing that break-ups can be a difficult and emotionally turbulent time, the checklist works as a preliminary tool that:
- Describes how to prepare for the first meeting with your lawyer, and what documents to bring to the first consultation;
- Offers tips that can help in reducing expenses in the course of, and after separation; and
- Suggests ways to help children adjust to separation.
Read the full article and checklist here.