Our team offers tailored support to help you navigate the distinct challenges of later-in-life divorce.
Ending a marriage later in life involves navigating well-established lives, often with significant intertwined assets and long-term support considerations. Our team offers the sensitive and experienced guidance needed to address these unique circumstances, focusing on a fair and respectful resolution for your future.
Grey divorce refers to the dissolution of a marriage where the spouses are typically over the age of 50. It often involves unique considerations related to retirement assets and long-term financial security.
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Navigating divorce later in life presents its own set of challenges when compared with earlier-in-life separations.
Often, significant assets have been accumulated over decades, requiring careful consideration in their division, particularly retirement funds, pensions, and investment accounts. Understanding the long-term financial implications, including potential impacts on retirement plans and future healthcare needs, is crucial.
Determining spousal support in grey divorce frequently involves analyzing lengthy histories and established standards of living. The emotional aspects of separating after many years together can also be significant, requiring a sensitive and understanding legal approach. While children may be grown, considerations around their ongoing well-being and the future of family relationships also remain important.
A couple is generally considered separated when at least one spouse states that they wish to end the relationship and the spouses begin living separate and apart with no reasonable chance of reconciling. In some circumstances, spouses may be considered to live separate and apart while still residing in the same home.
Under Alberta’s Divorce Act, a divorce can only be granted if there has been a breakdown of the marriage. Most often, this breakdown is established once the couple has lived separate and apart for at least one year. Less commonly, a divorce may be granted in less than a year on the basis of adultery or cruelty.
Most divorces do not require a trial and are resolved by negotiation between the parties or another form of alternative dispute resolution, such as family mediation or arbitration. A court hearing, such as an application/motion or trial, may be required when a couple is unable to resolve an outstanding issue through less formal means.
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