Joint Applications

Joint Application for Divorce

If you and your former partner are married and agree on all aspects of your separation, then you may prepare and submit a joint application to obtain a divorce judgment. After having completed family mediation with me or with another mediator, I could do this for you based on your Summary of Agreements.

I can prepare a joint application for divorce and all accompanying documents that would be required by the Court. Your application can be submitted and signed after you have been separated for one year. After your documents are submitted to the Court, you will usually receive your judgment of divorce and divorce certificate within several months.

Joint Application on Parental Time, Parental Authority and Child Support

If you are not married to your co-parent but have come to an agreement on parental time and child support, then you may decide that you want to have this homologated by the Court (in other words, transformed into a Court judgment).  There are two primary benefits to this:

1. This allows you to have a Court judgment that sets out specifics such as parental time of the children with each parent, including weekly schedules, holidays, birthdays, etc. This can provide parents with peace of mind and also be useful if ever there are disagreements in the future. 
2. With respect to child support, Revenu Quebec would then be involved in collecting child support and the yearly indexation of child support. You can either pay this through Revenu Quebec or, if both parents are in agreement, directly to the other parent (while paying a security to Revenu Quebec). 

**Please note that if you are in a parental union at the time of separation, I can draft a joint application on the partition of your parental union after you have come to an agreement.

Joint Application to Modify Child Support or Parental Time

Whether or not you and your co-parent were married, if you have a judgment that is currently in effect that you both agree to change, then I can draft and file at Court a joint application for you to do that. 

Some reasons why you might want to modify parental time:

• One parent is going to relocate with a child to another city, province, or country, which will change the parenting schedule.
• You agree to change to a 7 day-7 day schedule now that your children are older.

If you have changed jobs or have been unemployed, you may want to modify child support. If both parties are in agreement, I can draft a joint application to modify the child support that is in the Court judgment currently in effect. This judgment would then be automatically sent to Revenu Quebec. 

Joint Application to Cancel Child Support

If your children are financially autonomous and you and your co-parent agree to cancel child support, I can draft a joint application to cancel child support that would be submitted to the Superior Court. After the Court grants your application, child support would be cancelled and the judgment would be automatically transmitted to Revenu Quebec.