Increase in parenting coordinators who mediate family disputes requires provincial standards: report

Parenting coordination offers families an alternative to court battles. A recent report from the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family recommended the development of Alberta guidelines for the relatively new field, which was established in British Columbia in 2007. The centre’s executive director, John-Paul Boyd, who is also a family lawyer and trained coordinator, spoke to Postmedia about the need for training standards.
Q. What standards currently exist in Alb