Divorce is one of the most challenging experiences anyone can go through, but you don't have to do it alone. We have helped more than 7,500 families through this life transition and emerge with a renewed sense of hope and purpose.
Divorce can be a difficult experience
Create a clear path to a new life with a fair divorce
You can experience a better way to divorce with Fairway Divorce Solutions. Our Divorce Resolution Mediators will guide you through a fair and amicable separation, safeguarding your assets and prioritizing your children’s well-being.
Since 2006, we’ve helped thousands of families across Canada achieve peaceful resolutions without the need for a divorce lawyer. With our clear process, expert support, and flat fee structure, you can confidently navigate this transition and start a new chapter in your life. Let us help you achieve a smooth and stress-free divorce.
Divorce resolution for families in Banff
With a belief that rural communities deserve access to the type of top-notch services often reserved for city dwellers, Fairway Divorce Solutions offers remote mediation and divorce resolution options for families and individuals residing in and around Banff, Alberta.
The first municipality in Canada to be incorporated inside a national park, the beautiful and pristine Town of Banff has been known as a tourist mecca for more than a hundred years. However, its history goes back much further than that, and it is also a place where Canada’s first peoples lived and visited for more than 10,000 years. Banff is very family-friendly and its residents are an eclectic mix of all ages and backgrounds.
At Fairway, we provide mediation services that understand the unique character of Banff families, keeping your needs at the forefront.
How we are deeply qualified to serve you
The Fairway team supporting our Banff clients are fierce believers in the Fairway process to better navigate through and protect assets and children. All couples and families will receive the utmost care, detail and assistance when it comes to asset division and future financial outcomes. You won’t be disappointed in enlisting this team at a pivotal time in your life.
A note to Banff couples from our Calgary principal partner
"At Fairway Divorce Solutions, we are in the business of helping families, and our team boasts the best in terms of mediators, negotiators, in-house counsel and finance experts. Warm, empathetic, clever and professional are words that I use to describe our people."
Fair and efficient divorce mediation
Thousands of Canadians have chosen Fairway Divorce Solutions for a fair and balanced settlement. Our approach ensures you achieve the best possible outcome for yourself and your children.
Our method focuses on what matters to you:
Save Time
Complete your separation in months
Reach a resolution within 120 days after financial disclosure. Unlike the traditional legal system, where timelines are unpredictable, our process ensures a timely conclusion.
Save Money
Avoid unexpected legal expenses
With our fixed fee structure, you know the cost upfront. We don't charge by the hour like many lawyers and mediators, preventing any surprise legal bills.
Reduce stress
Independently negotiate your terms
Our Independently Negotiated Resolution™ process allows both parties to make decisions separately, reducing stress and avoiding power struggles.
Prioritize Your Children
Ensure the best outcome for your kids
The Fairway Nurtured Children Plan™ guides you through divorce thoughtfully and fairly, ensuring your children can thrive.
Karen’s story
When it comes to divorce, there's the traditional way – and then there's a better way.
I'm Karen Stewart, and I learned this lesson the hard way.
Over twenty years ago, I unexpectedly faced divorce. Desperate for guidance, I sought the "best" lawyer my friends could recommend. Five gruelling years and over $500,000 in legal fees later, my ability to co-parent was shattered, and my finances were in ruins. The combative legal approach proved to be a costly mistake.
Determined to find a better solution, I founded Fairway Divorce Solutions® in 2006. Today, our team of more than 25 Divorce Resolution Mediators operates from over 11 locations, having successfully assisted 6,500 couples across Canada. Our process works, regardless of the relationship dynamics with your ex.
My mission is to change how divorce happens. I care deeply about you and your children. There is hope and a clear path forward, even in the toughest times.
A structured divorce process
Divorce can dismantle everything you've built and be a traumatic experience for your children. At Fairway Divorce Solutions, we eliminate the adversarial nature of divorce by guiding you independently through a structured, step-by-step process that addresses all financial and parenting matters from beginning to end. Discover what sets us apart.
Simplify your divorce with the Fairway Method™
Achieve your fixed-fee separation agreement in 120 Days
Our process eliminates the confrontational nature of traditional divorce. We guide you through an Independently Negotiated Resolution™, addressing all financial and parenting matters step-by-step. This approach empowers you to make informed decisions without the disruption of emotional conflict. Within 120 days of negotiations, your separation agreement can be finalized, setting the stage for a positive post-divorce future.
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Define your desired outcome
The Clear Road to a New Life®
You and your partner commit to a negotiated divorce resolution and meet individually with a mediator. You'll gain clarity on your current situation and the best possible outcomes for your divorce. A local family lawyer will provide essential legal insights.
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Establish a fair financial agreement
Fairway Financial Pie™
We equip you with the tools to assess your financial situation. We facilitate the division of assets and agreements on spousal and child support, protecting your wealth and laying the groundwork for your independent future.
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Develop a comprehensive parenting plan
Fairway Nurtured Children Plan™
Your mediator helps you create a child-focused co-parenting plan. This detailed roadmap includes agreements and guidelines for positive parenting, ensuring a bright future for your children and harmonious family events.
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Execute your divorce resolution
Fairway Negotiated Resolution Plan™
A comprehensive divorce resolution plan captures all the details you and your former partner have agreed to. You get independent legal advice from your lawyer to execute your separation agreement. When it’s all done you can now focus on the future!
How our mediators make divorce easier
Fairway Divorce Resolution Mediators are skilled in both mediation and negotiation, with strong backgrounds in finance. We prioritize your rights and help you achieve an amicable divorce swiftly, so you can start your new life.
Extensive mediation experience
We handle more divorces in a year than most family lawyers do in a lifetime.
We handle more divorces in a year than most family lawyers do in a lifetime. With over 25 mediators in more than 11 locations, we've assisted 7,500 Canadian families, achieving a 95% success rate and protecting over 16,000 children from the harms of divorce.
Expertise in financial complexity
We have a wealth of experience working with high-net-worth families.
Our specialists, including Chartered Financial Divorce Specialists, help navigate complex financial situations. We offer a comprehensive service with an extended network of financial experts to preserve your assets.
Fixed-fee, 120-day resolution
Our approach prioritizes mutually beneficial solutions, helping to avoid the need for litigation.
Avoid the stress of litigation with our proven, flat-fee process. Our guaranteed method ensures fair-minded couples with assets and children achieve an amicable divorce in 120 days.
Comprehensive mediation support
Gain access to the divorce resolution services and professionals you require.
From start to finish, we provide access to all necessary divorce resolution services. Our trained mediators and negotiators specialize in parenting and finance, guiding you through every step.
Our services in Banff
For almost twenty years we have been incorporating best practices from mediation, negotiation and the traditional divorce system and creating processes that bring resolution to your divorce within 120 days of financial disclosure and allow you to move on with your new life.
Asset Division
How Canadian law divides family property when a marriage ends: how property division works, how it varies by province, excluded property, pensions, business interests, and the unique rules that apply to the family home.
Find Out MoreChild Support
How child support is calculated in Canada using the Federal Child Support Guidelines, what income is included, how special and extraordinary expenses are handled, when support can be changed, and how it is enforced if a parent doesn't pay.
Find Out MoreChildren & Parenting
How divorce and separation affect children under Canadian law: parenting arrangements, decision-making responsibility, parenting time, relocation rules, and what courts consider when determining the best interests of the child.
Find Out MoreCommon Law Separation
Common law couples separating in Canada face different rules than married spouses,and those rules vary by province. This guide covers property rights, spousal support eligibility, parenting arrangements, and why a written agreement is critical for unmarried partners.
Find Out MoreConflict & Emotions
The emotional stages of divorce, the difference between normal distress and symptoms requiring professional support, what defines a high-conflict divorce and its impact on children, and what research says actually helps. It includes practical coping strategies and how to find affordable support.
Find Out MoreDivorce Cost and Time
Realistic cost ranges and timelines for every type of divorce in Canada, from DIY and online services through mediation, collaborative divorce, and litigation. Covers what drives costs up, what you can actually control, legal aid options, and how to build a realistic divorce budget.
Find Out MoreDivorce Mediation
An objective guide to the family mediation process: what a mediator does and does not do, how the process typically works, the difference between interest-based and directive mediation, costs, timelines, provincial differences, and how to choose a qualified mediator in Canada.
Find Out MoreDivorce Process
A step-by-step guide to Canadian divorce law in practice, from the different ways to prove a breakdown in marriage through filing, serving divorce papers, and receiving your divorce order. Covers uncontested and contested divorce proceedings, timelines by province, and what happens if your spouse won't cooperate.
Find Out MoreDivorce Support
A practical guide to every type of support available to Canadians going through separation: therapy, legal advice, financial guidance, peer groups, and parenting support. Covers what each costs, who each is for, and how to access help in your province.
Find Out MoreHousing Concers
Who gets to stay in the house, the four most common options for the family home (buyout, sale, delayed sale, nesting), and post-divorce housing realities for Canadian families. Covers the matrimonial home rules in and how they vary across provinces.
Find Out MoreLegal Representation
When you need a lawyer, when you don't, and what your options are in between: unbundled legal services, duty counsel, Legal Aid eligibility, online legal information resources, and how to get independent legal advice without paying for full representation.
Find Out MorePower Imbalance
Recognizing emotional abuse, coercive control, financial abuse, and intimidation during separation, and understanding how Canadian law now treats these dynamics under the Divorce Act. Covers safety planning, and when mediation is and is not appropriate.
Find Out MorePrenuptual, Postnuptual and Cohabitation Agreements
What domestic contracts can and cannot do in Canada, how courts assess their enforceability, what full financial disclosure and independent legal advice are required, and how the rules differ across the provinces. Includes cohabitation rights for common law couples.
Find Out MoreSeparation Agreement
What a separation agreement is, what it must cover to be enforceable, how it differs from a divorce order, and the risks of DIY agreements. A well-drafted separation agreement reviewed by a family lawyer resolves all issues and supports a clean, uncontested divorce filing.
Find Out MoreSpousal Support
Who qualifies for spousal support in Canada, how amounts and duration are determined under the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines, the difference between compensatory and non-compensatory support, and when and how support can be varied or terminated.
Find Out More
Asset Division
How Canadian law divides family property when a marriage ends: how property division works, how it varies by province, excluded property, pensions, business interests, and the unique rules that apply to the family home.
Child Support
How child support is calculated in Canada using the Federal Child Support Guidelines, what income is included, how special and extraordinary expenses are handled, when support can be changed, and how it is enforced if a parent doesn't pay.
Children & Parenting
How divorce and separation affect children under Canadian law: parenting arrangements, decision-making responsibility, parenting time, relocation rules, and what courts consider when determining the best interests of the child.
Common Law Separation
Common law couples separating in Canada face different rules than married spouses,and those rules vary by province. This guide covers property rights, spousal support eligibility, parenting arrangements, and why a written agreement is critical for unmarried partners.
Conflict & Emotions
The emotional stages of divorce, the difference between normal distress and symptoms requiring professional support, what defines a high-conflict divorce and its impact on children, and what research says actually helps. It includes practical coping strategies and how to find affordable support.
Divorce Cost and Time
Realistic cost ranges and timelines for every type of divorce in Canada, from DIY and online services through mediation, collaborative divorce, and litigation. Covers what drives costs up, what you can actually control, legal aid options, and how to build a realistic divorce budget.
Divorce Mediation
An objective guide to the family mediation process: what a mediator does and does not do, how the process typically works, the difference between interest-based and directive mediation, costs, timelines, provincial differences, and how to choose a qualified mediator in Canada.
Divorce Process
A step-by-step guide to Canadian divorce law in practice, from the different ways to prove a breakdown in marriage through filing, serving divorce papers, and receiving your divorce order. Covers uncontested and contested divorce proceedings, timelines by province, and what happens if your spouse won't cooperate.
Divorce Support
A practical guide to every type of support available to Canadians going through separation: therapy, legal advice, financial guidance, peer groups, and parenting support. Covers what each costs, who each is for, and how to access help in your province.
Housing Concers
Who gets to stay in the house, the four most common options for the family home (buyout, sale, delayed sale, nesting), and post-divorce housing realities for Canadian families. Covers the matrimonial home rules in and how they vary across provinces.
Legal Representation
When you need a lawyer, when you don't, and what your options are in between: unbundled legal services, duty counsel, Legal Aid eligibility, online legal information resources, and how to get independent legal advice without paying for full representation.
Power Imbalance
Recognizing emotional abuse, coercive control, financial abuse, and intimidation during separation, and understanding how Canadian law now treats these dynamics under the Divorce Act. Covers safety planning, and when mediation is and is not appropriate.
Prenuptual, Postnuptual and Cohabitation Agreements
What domestic contracts can and cannot do in Canada, how courts assess their enforceability, what full financial disclosure and independent legal advice are required, and how the rules differ across the provinces. Includes cohabitation rights for common law couples.
Separation Agreement
What a separation agreement is, what it must cover to be enforceable, how it differs from a divorce order, and the risks of DIY agreements. A well-drafted separation agreement reviewed by a family lawyer resolves all issues and supports a clean, uncontested divorce filing.
Spousal Support
Who qualifies for spousal support in Canada, how amounts and duration are determined under the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines, the difference between compensatory and non-compensatory support, and when and how support can be varied or terminated.Certifications & Memberships
There is traditional mediation and traditional family law but at Fairway, we take family mediation and resolution accreditation to the next level.
