Good News

The Alberta legal system appears to have had a change of heart about forcing everyone to use the new forms immediately. Follow this link to see a PDF announcement made by the Alberta Courts in which they say that there is a 2 month grace period where clients can still file the “old” forms at the registries.

A new, downloadable divorce kit for Alberta containing the new forms and instructions for their use will be released in our Canadian web store shortly. A print version of the new Alberta kit will be available towards the end of November.

We are pleased that the scenario struck out below has not happened.

We do not know if the Alberta court registries will allow a grace period for new divorce applications to be filed using current forms on or after November 1st. They have normally done this in the past, but officials we have talked to are unable to say what will happen because they have not been told yet.

We think people who have invested time, effort, and emotion in preparing to file their divorrce applications should not be prevented from using current paperwork just because the date has changed from October to November. See our publisher’s comments here.

Not Good News

At the end of this past week (Friday, November 5) the Alberta Courts were still fiddling with the content and details of the new forms. We will not release updates for the current kit until we and our experts in Alberta are sure the changes have ended and there is a stable system to work with.