Course content

    1. John Panagakos' Presentation

    2. Jessica Braude's Presentation

    3. Rachel Baron's Presentation

    4. Julie Zimmerman's Presentation

    5. Alison Pengelley's Presentation

    1. John Panagakos' Recording

    2. Alison A., Ellen and Laurie's Recording

    3. Risa Ennis' Recording

    4. Jessica Braude's Recording

    5. Rachel Baron's Recording

    6. Julie Zimmerman's Recording

    7. Alison Pengelley's Recording

About this course

  • $200.00
  • 6 CPD hours
  • November 10, 2021

Course Description

1. Separation Mortgages

John Panagakos, Founder of Separation Mortgages

2. A Better Divorce: Steering Your Separating Clients into the Collaborative Process

Alison Anderson, CFP, CFDS, AC
Ellen Nightingale, LL.B, ACP, Principal of Ellen Nightingale Family Law
Laurie Stein, LL.B, MSW, RSW, ACP

3. How to Set Boundaries Between Clients in Crisis

Risa Ennis, B.A., Acc FM (OAFM), M.A. of Risa Ennis Family Mediation and Counselling Services

4. Alternatives to Litigation

Jessica Braude, J.D. of Christen Seaton Burrison Hudani LLP

5. Protecting Wealth - Marriage Contracts and Cohabitation Agreements

Rachel E. Baron, B.A., J.D., AccFM, FDRP Med.

6. Excluded Property & Gifts - Treatment Including Income Therefrom

Julie Zimmerman, J.D. of Bortolussi Family Law

7. Tax Issues and the ‘Orderly and Equitable’ Settlement of Property and Equalization Issues in Family Law

Alison Pengelley, J.D. of Epstein & Associates

Instructor(s)

Alison Anderson CFP, CFDS, ACP
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Alison Anderson is a Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Financial Divorce Specialist, trained family mediator and holds the designation as an Advanced Collaborative Professional. Alison’s practice is a fee-based service located in Toronto and devoted to clients going through separation and divorce. She is a member of the Toronto and York Collaborative Practice Associations, currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Ontario Association of Collaborative Professionals and is a trainer for Introductory Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice. As the financial neutral in a Collaborative model, Alison’s role is that of a neutral, unbiased party assisting both spouses to understand all the financial aspects to their situation and helping to remove potential barriers that could impede or slow the settlement process.

Rachel Baron B.A. J.D. AccFM, FDRP Med.
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Rachel E. Baron is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School, 1987. Rachel is a sole practitioner in Toronto, Ontario, practicing family law, with a particular focus on Marriage Contracts and Cohabitation Agreements, custody, support and property disputes. From 1993 to 2005, Rachel was an instructor for the Bar Admission Family Law course for Interviewing, Advocacy, Civil Procedure, Negotiation and Examiner of civil motions.

Rachel was a member of the examination team for the Family Law Bar Admission Course, Law Society of Upper Canada from 2000 to 2005, for the Examination Team for the Barrister's and Solicitor's Examination Item Development Workshop, Law Society of Upper Canada, from 2004 to 2005, and for the writing and editing of the Bar Admission Reference Material on Divorce, Marriage and Annulment, from 2001 to 2005. Rachel was a regular speaker for the Family Information Session, Superior Court of Justice from 1999 to 2005. She has been a speaker at the Ontario Bar Association, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development, Ryerson University and the Institute of Law Clerks for Ontario. Rachel is a Family Law Mediator and received training at The Advocates Society Harvard Mediation Course in 1999. Rachel was appointed a Dispute Resolution Officer for the Superior Court of Justice in October 2003 and has mediated hundreds of case conferences and motions to change. In 2010, Rachel received her Certificate of Advanced Mediation from the University of Windsor Law School. In 2015, Rachel received her Accredited Family Mediator designation from the Ontario Association for Family Mediation. In 2017, Rachel received a certified specialist designation in mediation from the Family Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario.

Jessica Braude
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Jessica is a passionate advocate and has acted at all levels of the Court in Ontario. Jessica’s background in corporate and commercial litigation brings a broad and diverse perspective to her practise. Although she is a strong litigator, her goal is to achieve collaborative settlements through alternative dispute resolution. She has an aptitude for structuring creative solutions that accomplish the best results for her clients. Jessica is an accredited Family Law Mediator, a Collaborative Family Law lawyer and Family Law Arbitrator. Jessica also acts as a Parenting Coordinator and assists families in implementing their parenting agreements.

Risa Ennis
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Risa Ennis began her career, after being an at home mom for several years, as a Certified Parent Educator in 1997. It was very clear to her at that time from the voluminous requests by clients, struggling to co-parent with their divorced spouses, that mediation was the best way to significantly help these clients, especially in offering a non-adversarial mechanism to draft binding parenting plans.

So she became an Accredited Family Mediator in 2000.

Along with obtaining a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Counselling in 2005 specializing in grief and relationship counselling, as well as presently being a Parent Coordinator and Collaborative Professional, she has worked to help clients successfully devise fair and child-focused parenting plans, but more importantly, helped them to accept and deal with divorce grief so they can be healthy role models for their children and move forward wisely in their post-separation lives.

Ellen Nightingale
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Ellen Nightingale has been a Family Law lawyer for 40 years. Her practice is located in Toronto and is devoted to resolving conflict by peaceful means.

She is a board member of Ontario Association of Collaborative Professionals and past chair of Collaborative Divorce Toronto.

Her services enable clients to create wise, customized solutions, maintain important relationships and provide peace of mind.

John Panagakos
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Collaboratively trained John Panagakos is the founder of Separation Mortgages, Canada’s first and only dedicated service helping individuals and couples secure mortgage financing during and after separation. John is an experienced licensed mortgage professional with unparalleled insight, who works with Canada’s charter banks and has privileged relationships with a wide range of lenders. John can provide customized services and creative solutions for the benefit of his clients, and they family’s changing needs.

Laurie Stein LLB, MSW, RSW, ACP
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Laurie is a child, youth, individual and family therapist, mediator and Family Professional. In Collaborative family law, she works closely with clients and lawyers both in individual and joint meetings integrating semi-therapeutic and strategic and narrative approaches. As well, she works with parents to create a parenting plan, discuss parenting and child adjustment, and facilitates the larger team meetings. Laurie has trained widely in the Ontario Collaborative community, and is a trainer with multiple training teams and partners, including the Toronto Collaborative Training Team and is a faculty member with the IACP (International Academy of Collaborative Professionals).

Laurie has 31 years clinical experience working with families, children and teens in treatment and mental health settings and private practice. In addition to her therapy, mediation and Family Professional practice, her past experience includes working with children and youth as a children’s lawyer.

Julie Zimmerman B.Sc. (Hons.), J.D.
Family Law Lawyer / Collaborative Lawyer / Litigator
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Julie has been practicing Family Law since her call to the bar in 2010 in a full range of Family Law matters, including complex parenting, financial support, and property issues. She negotiates and drafts Marriage Contracts and Separation Agreements and represents her clients in the Collaborative Family process, mediations, arbitrations and in court. Julie obtained her Juris Doctorate degree at Osgoode Hall Law School, and her Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from York University.

Julie is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, York Region Family Law Association, and York Collaborative Practice.