The Fairway Difference: A Guided Path to Divorce Resolution

Divorce is one of life’s most challenging transitions. Yet, it doesn’t have to become a battleground or drain your finances. Fairway Divorce Solutions is Canada’s leader in divorce mediation, offering families a path anchored in dignity, clarity, and problem-solving. Our proprietary Independently Negotiated Resolution™ (INR) method transforms the typical divorce process—putting you back in control and supporting both parties every step of the way.

Divorce Mediation: A Practical and Compassionate Alternative

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Choosing family mediation through Fairway is not about giving up your rights—it means choosing a smarter, more human approach to family law. Rather than surrendering decisions to the uncertainty of court proceedings, you work with accredited family mediators and specialists in legal, financial, and parenting matters.

Through mediation, clients make informed choices about:

  • Division of property and assets
  • Parenting schedules and responsibilities
  • Child and spousal support
  • Communication and conflict management
  • Long-term co-parenting plans

Fairway’s fixed-fee mediation services make costs clear from the outset—so there are no surprises, no billable hour anxiety, and no unnecessary conflict. With a 95% success rate and most agreements reached within 120 days after financial disclosure, Fairway’s approach to dispute resolution is not only more respectful—it’s highly efficient.

Handling High-Conflict and Complex Divorce Cases

There’s a misconception that divorce mediation is only for amicable couples. In truth, Fairway’s INR process has proven successful in even high-conflict or complex situations. By allowing each spouse to work independently through each step, power imbalances and heated arguments are replaced by structure, safety, and results.

If your divorce includes complex finances, business assets, or a blended family, our Chartered Financial Divorce Specialists and external experts ensure everything is valued fairly. This is why many clients say, "We should have started here."

How Divorce Mediation Brings Clarity and Security

Divorce mediation at Fairway takes the guesswork out of the divorce process. You’re never rushed into emotional decisions. Instead, every mediation session is thoughtfully structured, reducing conflict and stress while ensuring each decision is made logically and with everyone’s wellbeing in mind.

The result? Even couples who struggled to communicate can achieve a separation agreement and parenting plan that leaves them—and their children—feeling secure about the future.

Protecting Children Through Divorce

Children are often the most affected by family dispute resolution. Fairway’s Nurtured Children Plan™ keeps their needs at the heart of every solution—helping parents focus on consistency, communication, and stability.

Instead of fighting over "custody," our family mediation process guides parents to ask:

  • What arrangements best support our kids’ schooling and routines?
  • How do we shield children from conflict?
  • What decisions can each parent make independently, and what must be decided together?

Children deserve emotional safety. Fairway’s family mediators ensure that’s never overlooked.

The Cost of Divorce: Why Mediation Saves Time and Money

Traditional litigation and hiring a family lawyer can quickly escalate both costs and stress. Fairway Divorce Solutions offers an alternative: clear, flat-fee packages covering everything from property division to parenting planning and spousal support reviews. Clients often save thousands and avoid the emotional toll of drawn-out divorce proceedings.

Maintain Control With Divorce Mediation

In court, strangers make life-changing decisions for you. With Fairway, you and your spouse remain in charge. INR is designed for true empowerment—ensuring both parties’ voices are heard equally and every perspective is respected. If outside legal advice or an independent legal advisor is needed, our process accommodates that without sacrificing momentum or fairness.

Why Canadian Courts Prefer Mediation

Across Canada, courts are increasingly requiring mediation before hearings—recognizing that mediation leads to better outcomes for families and less strain on children. Since 2006, Fairway Divorce Solutions has been leading this movement, delivering family mediation that exceeds court requirements and sets up families for long-term peace.

Family Mediation: A Better Approach to Divorce

Mediation is more than a process; it’s a chance to move forward with dignity, financial security, and emotional clarity. Fairway Divorce Solutions treats each client with the respect and professionalism a major life transition deserves.

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The Truth About Family Mediation

Let’s clear up a few common myths:

  • Mediation is not about surrendering your rights. It’s about protecting them more intelligently.
  • You don’t need to agree on everything to begin—just on the process.
  • Mediation works for complex and high-conflict cases.
  • You can still seek legal advice at any stage.
  • Family mediation is not therapy—it’s structured, outcome-driven dispute resolution.

Divorce Mediation Is the Best Choice for Your Future

If you’re thinking, "We’re not on the same page; this won’t work for us," you’re not alone. Many who choose Fairway start there. But the combination of professionalism, neutrality, and the structure of the divorce mediation process helps most resolve even deep disagreements without litigation.

Fairway Divorce Solutions has guided over 7,000 Canadian couples through legal separation, helping protect over 15,000 children—without going to family court.

You don’t have to fight. You don’t have to guess. And you don’t have to let someone else decide your future. With Fairway, you can protect your family, finances, and peace of mind.

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Client testimonials

Success comes in many forms. For us, it is hearing back from our clients and reading how we have changed their lives for the better. These stories are the reason we do what we do.

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It was like a breath of fresh air to know that I could call and talk and know that I wasn’t being charged by the hour. The flat fee that they charged was worth every penny and nothing compared to the money that I had spent on a lawyer with no results!!! We were told up front exactly what the costs would be and there were no unpleasant surprises!!!

- Fairway Client

The Unique Fairway Method

Divorce is difficult. We make is easier from start to finish. The Clear Road to a New Life®

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Helping Canadians with divorce mediation since 2006, with more than 25 Divorce Resolution Mediators in more than 11 locations.

Frequently asked questions

At Fairway, we understand that facing a divorce is daunting, bringing mixed emotions and many questions. We are committed to ensuring that you have the knowledge and tools to move through the process in a way that protects your assets and your children.

Divorce mediation is a step-by-step process that helps couples resolve disputes outside court. Fairway’s INR model ensures each party makes decisions independently before reaching a final, legally binding separation agreement. This removes emotional pressure and power imbalances, paving the way for fair, reasoned outcomes.

Absolutely. Structure is the key. Fairway’s mediation process separates emotional reactions from decision-making and guides each step with professional support.

Absolutely. Structure is the key. Fairway’s mediation process separates emotional reactions from decision-making and guides each step with professional support.

The Nurtured Children Plan™ places children’s needs first, supporting healthy, consistent co-parenting and shielding kids from the negative effects of family dispute resolution.

Fairway is built for complex financial cases, with Certified Divorce Financial Analysts and external partners assisting with providing accurate valuations and fair outcomes.

A traditional divorce lawyer typically represents one side, often fueling conflict and cost. Family mediation is collaborative, goal-oriented, and keeps both parties—along with their children—in focus.

Yes. Most Fairway clients reach final agreement within 120 days after full financial disclosure, compared to years in the litigation process.

Fairway is committed to changing the way divorce happens and avoiding the destruction to assets and relationships that occur in the traditional system. Here are just a few costly pitfalls you can avoid by choosing Fairway’s divorce mediation process:

  • Paying a large retainer
  • Filing court documents
  • Serving your spouse
  • Receiving a statement of defence
  • Correspondence between lawyers
  • Interim applications
  • Serving affidavits
  • Countering affidavits
  • Examination for discoveries
  • Divorce undertakings
  • Chambers applications
  • Trials
  • Judgement
  • Filing divorce documents
  • Possible appeal

One of the biggest misconceptions – up there with having to be amicable for mediation to work –  is that the mediator is the one who makes all of the decisions or pushes decisions in a specific direction, in a family mediation. The entire concept of mediation is that the parties mediate an outcome without the pressure of the lawyers or of each other. The goal is to get a close to a win-win as possible which completely contradicts the goal of lawyer – whereas the goal of a divorce attorney will always be to win and make the other party lose

The mediator is there to make sure that each side better understands not only the needs of one another, but of themselves. They are there to facilitate the conversation and come to the best solution possible. It is ultimately up to the couple to agree to the outcomes that will work best for moving forward.

There is also a myth that most of the decisions and issues have to be solved before mediation can begin.  This is simply not the case and in fact would make mediation pointless. The entire point of family mediation is to solve problems and  reach agreements on everything from parenting arrangement to asset division.

Working with Fairway Divorce Solutions means helping in the negotiations, generating solutions, and finding positive outcomes. Mediation is about working through the conflicts and bringing both parties to a resolution that may not have been possible through traditional litigation.