Daniel Colborne

About Daniel

Daniel Colborne has more than two decades of family law litigation experience and was called to the bar and joined the Law Society of Alberta in 2001, the year he also began his own sole practice. He is a qualified mediator who favours negotiation before litigation, and has argued cases at every level of the Alberta judiciary, including a landmark child support case that reached the Supreme Court of Canada (D.B.S. v. S.R.G., 2006 SCC 37). He successfully challenged the prohibition on common-law couples dividing pensions after separation in Lubiansky v. Gazdag, where the court found the legislation violated Charter equality rights, and represented five children in a 19-day custody and parenting trial in JWS v. CJS. He completed the Alberta Child Representation Training for Lawyers in 2005 and sits on the Legal Aid Child Representation Panel and the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate roster.