In Coquitlam, families deserve more than the stress, expense, and unpredictability of a legal battle between two lawyers. Fairway Divorce Solutions offers a unique, step-by-step mediation approach that empowers local families to resolve separation and divorce with confidence, respect, and lasting results. With deep expertise in BC law and Tri-Cities realities, our team supports you every step in building a brighter future.
Mediation that works for Coquitlam families
The biggest pain Coquitlam families face in divorce
Divorce too often means losing control—over your finances, your family, and your peace of mind. The fear of emotional strain, rapidly escalating costs, and the uncertainty of adversarial negotiations between lawyers makes everything harder. Coquitlam families want privacy, efficiency, and a process that feels human and manageable.
Divorce mediation designed for Coquitlam and the Tri-Cities
Fairway’s experts understand what makes separation challenging on the West Coast: diverse family structures, complicated property arrangements, and the need for discretion in a close community.
BC family expertise—local understanding
Our mediators bring both legal and financial training and years of experience with unique BC property, co-parenting, and business circumstances. Whether you’re managing real estate, investments, or complex parenting plans, our insight is tailored to you.
Flexible solutions that fit your needs
We offer private appointments to respect your comfort, speed, and privacy. Every client receives individualized attention and a process designed around their life.
Clear, structured guidance—no adversarial fights
Our pathway starts with a complementary introduction and guides you, step by step, to a fair, lawyer-reviewed agreement. You leave with peace of mind and a plan, never the wounds of a prolonged legal confrontation.
Mediation that brings clarity, confidence, and peace
At Fairway, separation is more than a legal shift—it’s a change in life, finances, and family dynamics. Our proven Independently Negotiated Resolution™ (INR™) model protects your autonomy and wellbeing, designed to make every agreement work today and tomorrow. With financial expertise at its core, our method builds the stable foundation you need for a truly new start.
Reduce time
Separate in months, not years
You will reach a resolution within 120 days after financial disclosure is in place. If you each hire your own lawyers within the traditional legal system, then you have no control over time, and the divorce will drag on for years.
Reduce cost
Avoid shocking legal bills
We have a fixed fee that doesn’t change, so you know exactly what you are paying to go through the process of your divorce and reach a fair conclusion. Unlike lawyers and most mediators, we don’t work on an hourly basis.
Reduce stress
Independently negotiate a resolution
You will both move through the decision-making process separately. With our Independently Negotiated Resolution™ process, we reduce stressful interactions and avoid the power struggles that often interfere with making good decisions.
Protect the kids
Children should not be the victims
The Fairway Nurtured Children Plan™ ensures the best possible outcome for your children. We guide you through your divorce in a thoughtful, fair-minded way and make sure your children can thrive.
Independently Negotiated Resolution™
Our trademarked method separates both parties during negotiation to reduce conflict. This promotes better decision-making and leads to faster, less emotional results. Many Coquitlam families find this approach helps them focus on what truly matters.
The Fairway Method™
Every step in our process—from readiness to agreement—is transparent, lawyer-reviewed, and tailored to BC family law. We guide you through property division, financial planning, and parenting agreements with predictable fees and reasonable timelines.
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Define the best outcome
The Clear Road to a New Life®
After you have both committed to a negotiated divorce resolution you meet one-on-one with your divorce mediator. You get a clear understanding of where you are right now and what the best possible outcome for your divorce would be. A family lawyer from your area will educate you on the current legal situation and other important information.
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A fair financial agreement
Fairway Financial Pie™
We provide you with the tools to gather your financial information and clarify your financial situation. We facilitate the division of assets and agreement on spousal and child support. You protect the wealth you have created and build a foundation for your independent future.
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A comprehensive parenting plan
Fairway Nurtured Children Plan™
Your Divorce Resolution Mediator helps you reach a child-focused co-parenting plan. It’s a comprehensive road map that provides the agreements and guidelines for positive parenting. It ensures a bright future for your children and peaceful holidays and family events throughout the year.
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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!
Why Coquitlam chooses Fairway
Fixed fees mean no runaway legal costs. We bring expertise in handling complex assets , family businesses, and blended families—so you never have to explain your story twice. Our mediators are trained to de-escalate conflict, address unique BC property and support questions, and deliver clarity, all while preserving your dignity and financial stability.
Vast experience in divorce mediation
We resolve more divorces in a year than a family lawyer in a lifetime.
With more than 25 Divorce Resolution Mediators in more than 11 locations, we have assisted 7,500 Canadian families in resolving a divorce and executing a separation agreement with a 95% success rate. With our divorce mediation process, we have helped protect more than 16,000 children from the needless harm of a divorce.
Solid Expertise in financial complexity
We have extensive experience with high-net-worth families.
Our Chartered Financial Divorce Specialists help you navigate complex financial arrangements. We provide a complete service with an extended network of financial specialists (including chartered accountants, financial planners and valuators). Our goal is to preserve your financial assets as much as possible.
Amicable divorce separation agreement in 120 days for a fixed fee
We find solutions that work for both parties without litigation
Going through a divorce is hard enough without litigation. We find amicable solutions rather than using adversarial tactics. For fair-minded couples with assets and children to protect, our flat fee, 120 days to resolution is the only guaranteed and proven process in Canada to achieve an amicable divorce.
Mediation from start to finish
Get access to the divorce resolution services and experts you need
Achieving an amicable agreement and finalizing your divorce requires multiple professionals. Our trained mediators and negotiators specialize in parenting and finance and ensure you get all the advice you need. At Fairway Divorce Solutions, we mediate, negotiate, and navigate your divorce from start to finish.
Mediation and support for every Coquitlam family
Choose full INR™ mediation when both parties are ready, or SOLE™ one-on-one support if you’re facing resistance. Our unique planning tools, parenting guidance, and ALLY™ empower clients throughout the process, whether your case involves simple asset splits to high net-worth or complex co-parenting cases. Every family, blended or traditional, is welcome and supported.
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.
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.
Certifications & Memberships
There is traditional mediation and traditional family law but at Fairway, we take family mediation and resolution accreditation to the next level.
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.
Everything was done very smoothly and on schedule! The team us very professional and the process us bullet proof. I would strongly recommend it to anyone considering mediation especially if you want to skip all the headache and focus on your kids and yourself. They really do take care of everything.
Olga V (Kelowna)