A Collaborative Divorce is a respectful way of resolving disputes.  A Collaborative Divorce works through a series of meetings between a client, their spouse or partner, and the Collaborative Team. These meetings are held in private offices: not in public court rooms.

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During the collaborative meetings, the spouse and the client will gather and exchange information, identify respective goals and concerns, and work closely with the attorney to negotiate a settlement that works in the short and the long term. The process employs collaboratively trained lawyers, divorce coaches, child specialists and financial specialists to help you reach an out-of-court, private and respectful agreement. The collaborative goal is to jointly solve problems.

 

A Collaborative Divorce can offer many benefits to both you and your spouse.  

 

A Collaborative Divorce:

• Promotes open communications

• Greatly reduces stress and anxiety

• Details a written pledge not to go to court

• Provides an honest exchange of information

• Proactively and thoroughly prepares the client for a new life

• Focuses on meeting all parties’ needs rather than creating a ‘winner’ and a ‘loser’

• Provides the legal, financial and emotional support to assist the client, while going through the multiple aspects of a divorce

• Allows the client to retain decision making control over their family as well as the domestic relations proceedings: meaning that the client and the spouse, not a judge, will decide the outcome

• Encourages mutual respect and helps to establish and maintain a healthy co-parenting relationship with the spouse

• Protects privacy rather than revealing intimate life details in a public court proceeding and record

• Greatly improves the odds that the spouse and the client will stay out of court in the future