Who should consider Collaborative Law?
A. Everyone should consider Collaborative Law, and determine whether it will work in their situation. Collaborative Law works best for parties who want to: * settle without going to court and commit to a good faith effort to do so. * maintain their privacy and dignity, and the dignity of the other party as they go through this life transition. * maintain a solid foundation on which to rebuild a post-divorce relationship for the benefit of the children, mutual friends, and other family members. * conserve their financial resources for their children, their retirement, or for activities that are more fun than getting divorced. * control the timing and outcome of their divorce process without interference from strangers and impersonal “systems.
In my opinion, everyone who loves their children, values their dignity and desires to give and get respect should consider Collaborative Law. It doesn’t hurt if you don’t want to single handedly put your attorneys children through college at the expense of your own. A few considerations: Collaborative Law works best for clients who wish to settle without going to court and are willing to commit to a good faith effort to do so. In Collaborative Law, you maintain control over your decision making rather than letting a judge decide. You can also control the amount of information that becomes a part of the public record (normally, the entire divorce file is open to the public, including any allegations made by either party in obtaining temporary orders or at trial.) Divorcing spouses often have continuing relationships with each other, as co-parents or through their circle of friends and relatives. Collaborative law will increase the possibility of maintaining a civil or even cordial relat
