Alberta court issues new guide for family matters

Law360 Canada (November 10, 2026, 4:12 PM EST) -- Alberta’s Court of King’s Bench has issued a new guide for processes under the court’s family focused protocol (FFP).

The court is encouraging litigants and counsel with family actions at the Court of King’s Bench to consult the guide. To ensure that the court’s FFP instructions remain as current as possible, the previous family focused protocol manual will no longer be updated and will be removed from the FFP webpage.

The court said the new guide is “lengthy and highly detailed” and not intended to be read front to back but rather intended to permit lawyers and litigants — whether they are applicants or respondents — to navigate quickly to the information they need using links in the table of contents.

The family focused protocol is a series of processes focused on a family-centred, resolution-oriented and streamlined approach to family matters, applicable to family and divorce proceedings at all Court of King’s Bench judicial centres.

Feedback on the new FFP guide can be provided by email to kbexternalfeedback@albertacourts.ca.

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