Frequently
asked questions

You do not need to be in the process of getting separated or divorced to book a Divorce Strategy Session. If you’re just thinking about separating, early legal advice can help you minimize risk, expenses, and stress. Mr. Benmor will provide a clear assessment of your personal situation. He will explain your options and describe the possible outcomes to help you determine your next move.

You may discuss topics such as:

• Whether out-of-court options such as mediation, mediation-arbitration, or collaborative family law are appropriate in your situation.
• The benefits and costs of self-representation versus full-service legal representation.
• Different ways to achieve a successful divorce settlement.
• Any immediate steps you should take to protect yourself, your children, and your assets.

A Divorce Strategy Session delivers proactive legal advice so you can confidently move forward with your immediate next steps knowing you are working towards your objectives.

A Divorce Strategy Session can dramatically improve your ability to successfully represent yourself by providing expert legal guidance at crucial stages in your separation or divorce.

It can help you:

• Clarify your goals
• Understand your legal rights and options
• Choose the best legal arguments
• Determine when and how to negotiate
• Learn to present your case in court or in mediation
• Navigate your case through the court system, from start to finish

You’ll learn tips and tools from an experienced divorce lawyer to achieve the very best possible outcome.

You can book a Divorce Strategy Session if you already have a lawyer. Many of our clients are currently represented by a lawyer and want a second opinion at specific junctures in their case. The Divorce Strategy Session helps you make critical legal decisions presented by your lawyer. You can use the Divorce Strategy Session to review your lawyer’s approach to your case or evaluate their recommendations. During your Divorce Strategy Session, you may also learn about other options that have not yet been identified or explained to you.

Mr. Benmor is one of Ontario’s most qualified divorce lawyers. He is one of the only divorce professionals in Canada who is licensed, certified, and accredited in all in-court and out-of-court divorce options. In addition, he has extensive experience with high net worth divorces, self-employed professionals, high-conflict, domestic abuse, child re-location, and complex financial cases. Click here to see a longer list of Mr. Benmor’s vast legal expertise.

Mr. Benmor’s Divorce Strategy Session provides you with an overall plan for how to achieve a successful divorce settlement, whereas lawyers who provide unbundled legal services implement discrete steps on your behalf. The Divorce Strategy Session can be a crucial first step before taking any legal action in the divorce process, unbundled or otherwise. Having clarity about the direction of your approach before taking action can save you thousands of dollars and much anguish. You can use unbundled legal services in combination with your Divorce Strategy Session.

A lawyer who offers traditional legal services represents a client from start to finish. Often, this looks like a continuous series of steps and legal actions. This process can be costly and time-consuming, and it may not provide the outcome you want.

A Divorce Strategy Session is different because you can use it to develop a high-level legal strategy, and review all of your choices before committing to any steps or legal actions your lawyer will take on your behalf (whether with our full-service firm or elsewhere). Mr. Benmor will answer your most pressing, difficult questions and offer customized advice about your situation and approach.

Divorce Coaches help you navigate the successive steps of your divorce. They help you get organized, stay focused and prepare your finances for divorce. Divorce Coaches provide referrals and guidance. However, they are generally not qualified to give legal advice or create a strategic approach for the entire case. Mr. Benmor regularly receives referrals from Divorce Coaches for a Divorce Strategy Session to complement their services.

After you book your Divorce Strategy Session, you will be invited to submit your personal information and legal concerns in an online questionnaire. This questionnaire gives you the opportunity to inform Mr. Benmor of your background information, your personal concerns, and your priority questions. Mr. Benmor prepares for your Divorce Strategy Session by reviewing this information before your session. Your comprehensive completion of the online questionnaire will ensure a high-quality session filled with valuable insights, education, and strategic guidance.

You are welcome to include your coach, therapist, or support person in your Divorce Strategy Session. You are encouraged to take copious notes during the session. For the purposes of ensuring confidentiality, privacy, and secrecy, your Divorce Strategy Session cannot be recorded. In order to minimize the cost to you, and maximize the time spent in session, there will be no written report provided.

Your Divorce Strategy Session is governed by solicitor-client privilege and is therefore confidential. However, you may choose to include any other person in the session provided you accept that the privilege and confidentiality may be lost. Many clients include their coach, therapist, or support person in their session.

The number of Divorce Strategy Sessions that each client schedules depends on many factors such as the stage of their divorce, the various professionals that they have used, and the level of attention they wish to receive through their own divorce process. Many clients find that one session is adequate to develop an overall plan of action. Some schedule successive sessions, at various stages in the process, to ensure that they remain on track to achieve their outcome. Others schedule follow-up sessions as they need them. The choice is yours.

Mr. Benmor thoroughly reviews the information that you provide in the online questionnaire. He comes to the Divorce Strategy Session prepared to answer your questions and outline a strategy for you. Therefore, most clients find that the time allotted in their Divorce Strategy Session is adequate. However, you may schedule a follow-up session if additional time is desired.

If there are any technical difficulties that interrupt your Divorce Strategy Session, a new session will be scheduled at no charge to you. If however, you miss your scheduled Divorce Strategy Session, there will be no refund, and a new charge will apply to any future session.

In your Divorce Strategy Session, you may discuss which divorce forms are needed at each stage, and how to use them to achieve a successful divorce settlement. If you need assistance in completing legal forms, our sister company SplitEasy can prepare your documents for you.

Booking a Divorce Strategy Session does not constitute a solicitor-client relationship or form a retainer between the client and Mr. Benmor or Benmor Family Law Group (our full service, divorce law firm). Therefore, neither Mr. Benmor nor any member of Benmor Family Law Group can be considered to be the client’s lawyer in any court proceeding or out-of-court divorce process unless a written retainer agreement is signed. Some clients decide to retain Benmor Family Law Group after their Divorce Strategy Session, but that is a separate decision and a separate process.

On occasion, clients that complete a Divorce Strategy Session later decide to retain Mr. Benmor and his full-service law firm, Benmor Family Law Group. If this interests you, the costs and benefits of such options can be thoroughly reviewed, weighed, and discussed with Mr. Benmor during your session.

Yes. Mr. Benmor has a robust knowledge of alternative professional services available to clients experiencing separation and divorce. He often refers clients to other divorce professionals that he knows and trusts. Mr. Benmor also refers clients to online resources to help them navigate their divorce and achieve a successful divorce settlement.