September 2024
Special Edition
We’ve been keeping a secret…
Introducing: Family Law in Alberta
This new CPLEA website has been designed to make the intimidating field of family law more accessible for Albertans.
Family laws apply to all kinds of families and relationships. The law impacts you whether you are in a new relationship, want to have children, or are separating from your spouse or partner.
The website covers a variety of family law topics including:
- In a relationship
- Pregnancy and adoption
- Caring for children
- Ending a relationship
- Support payments
- Family Violence
- Getting Help, and
- Going to Court
This family law website is the culmination of two years of work, a process that involved consulting with family law stakeholders and Albertans with legal issues to understand their needs, partnering with local creative agency Sticks & Stones to develop the website, drafting plain language legal information, and user testing. The website joins CPLEA’s complement of free legal information and education resources about the laws that affect Albertans.
We are grateful to the Alberta Law Foundation and the Department of Justice Canada for operational funding to make this project possible.
Next up, we are working to make the site bilingual. We are grateful to our French-language partner, L’Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Alberta (AJEFA), for their efforts and support, as well as to the Alberta Government for project funding.
Visit family.cplea.ca to learn about the law, understand your situation, and decide what you could do next.
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