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Aimee Schalles is a lawyer in Revelstoke, B.C., and co-founder of Jointly, a legal platform designed to help Canadian couples obtain affordable, legally valid prenuptial, postnuptial, and cohabitation agreements as part of their financial planning. She’s seen friends and relatives go through challenging separations that might have been less fraught had they documented the financial understandings they had with their ex when everybody was getting along.

Before attending law school, Schalles worked as an advocate for assisting homeless people in their search for housing, and she believes this experience still informs her legal practice—she loves helping ordinary people solve everyday problems. She herself is married with two kids and enjoys spending as much time as she can outdoors.

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