Doing Your Own Uncontested Divorce in New Brunswick

[L’atelier est présenté en anglais.]

This workshop is intended for individuals who have settled all their family law matters such as custody, support and marital property division and wish to apply for an uncontested divorce in the following:

• Bathurst (Gloucester County)
• Campbellton (Restigouche County)
• Edmundston (Madawaska County, the Parish of Drummond, and the Town of Grand Falls)
• Fredericton (Counties of York, Sunbury, and Queens)
• Miramichi (Northumberland County)
• Woodstock (Carleton County and Victoria County, excluding the Parish of Drummond and the Town of Grand Falls)

These areas follow the procedure under rules 72 and 73 of the New Brunswick Rules of Court, while the Judicial Districts of Moncton and Saint John use a different procedure.

PLEIS-NB is hosting an family law workshop titled “Doing Your Own Uncontested Divorce in New Brunswick the regions of Bathurst, Campbellton, Edmundston, Fredericton, Miramichi, and Woodstock", presented by Spencer MacInnis, a New Brunswick lawyer.

This workshop is intended to help individuals who are handling their own family law matters to better understand how to complete and file forms and follow proper court procedures for an uncontested divorce.

This workshop for an uncontested divorce covers the following:

• Background information
• Requirements for Divorce
• Completing forms
• Review of Petition or Application
• Financial Statement
• Serving documents
• Preparing your Trial Record by Affidavit Evidence
• Decision of the Court
• Divorce Certificate

Host or Publisher Public Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick