Rose Pellar is a graduate of Osgoode Hall law School. Within a year of becoming a lawyer in 1997, Rose Pellar decided to switch her Toronto general practice, which had included Family Law, Criminal Law, Real Estate, Wills and Estates, to focus on Family Law. Since 2007, her practice has been restricted to Family Law.

Rose has had the privilege of practicing as an Associate Lawyer with Oatley, Purser’s Family Law Division in Barrie in 2001, with McGee & Fryer in Unionville from 2001 to 2005 and with Galbraith Family Law in Barrie from 2005 to 2006. On October 1, 2006 she opened up her own firm of Pellar Family Law (now Pellar Family Law Professional Corporation) in Wasaga Beach.

Rose Pellar understands very well the toll separation takes on families, particularly the children. Consequently her goal is to help her clients achieve resolution while avoiding the detrimental effects of lengthy court battles and high legal fees.

Rose Pellar recommends the collaborative process in which the parties and their lawyers agree not to threaten or take court action. The parties are then able to obtain an agreement in a respectful manner, in usually a shorter amount of time and therefore usually with less legal costs.

Rose, who was a founding board member of the York Collaborative Practice group in York Region, believes very strongly that individuals are better served by not going to court. The positive results of the many cases she has handled using the collaborative process fuel her dream that individuals will soon recognize collaborative process as the better way of resolving family law issues.

Rose is a member of the Mapleview Community Church in Barrie where she has been co-facilitating, for the past 6 years, their 9-week Divorce Recovery Workshops held in the Spring and Fall of each year. Since moving to Wasaga Beach in 2006, she is also actively involved with the Lighthouse Community Church for whom she has ran a Divorce Recovery Workshop and she is now involved in their community outreach program to address the needs of the individuals living in the area as a result of the current economic downturn.