Collaborative Law Institute Blog – Family Law Attorneys & Professionals
Collaborative Divorce: An Opportunity for a Better Outcome Part 3
Part 3: Collaborative Divorce helps create better outcomes by requiring commitment at the beginning of the process. A Collaborative Divorce is one in which the husband and the wife each retain a lawyer for settlement purposes only. One of the reasons that the process...
Collaborative Divorce: An Opportunity For a Better Outcome Part 2
Part 2: Having lawyers that are fully committed to settlement creates better outcomes. A Collaborative Divorce is one in which the husband and the wife each retain a lawyer for settlement purposes only. Hiring a lawyer for this defined purpose has some risk. The...
Collaborative Divorce: An Opportunity For a Better Outcome Part 1
Part 1: What is Collaborative Divorce? Collaborative Divorce has spread rapidly throughout the world during the past two decades and has helped thousands of families achieve better outcomes. This series of blogs will focus on how people facing divorce can achieve...
Staying Together for the Children, Good or Bad Idea?
One of my favorite people, and among the wisest of my friends, is my hair stylist, Gina. I always look forward to any time we have to chat while my newly foiled tresses take their color. Recently, we had such an opportunity. We were talking about my work as a...
Letting Go During a Divorce
I just saw the pulse-pounding film Gravity, about American astronauts who are stranded in space following an unexpected catastrophe. This is not a spoiler alert—anyone who has seen a trailer for the movie knows this is going to happen. Without giving anything...
The Collaborative Process is for Unmarried Parents Too
Unmarried and have children? You may be interested to know that “Collaborative Divorce” is not just for divorce. Learn how the collaborative process can help you. First, it may be relieving to know that you are not alone. There are some interesting recent...
Collaborative Divorce in the Age of Death Eaters and Dementors
Working with children, I became a Harry Potter fan out of both necessity and real appreciation. J.K. Rowlings’ world of wizards and magic is a fantasy, but the themes of these books are human and real. Among the most frightening characters in Rowlings’ epic...
3 Tips For Healthy Parenting Through Divorce
All of us want to be the best parents we can be. We want our children to feel loved and supported. We want to share with them their disappointments as well as their successes. When parents divorce, the family faces new challenges. Parents can feel overwhelmed by...
“Believe me, it gets better!”
Several times a year, I have the opportunity to present a workshop on child-centered divorce, parenting plans and co-parenting to Daisy Camp. Daisy Camp is the brainchild of Jennifer Morris, a realtor who has realized her vision of providing women with important...
To Divorce or Not to Divorce? What to do with this Question.
As a Collaborative Divorce Attorney, I have seen many clients who are ambivalent about getting a divorce. How do I know they are ambivalent? Because, in addition to the story they tell me, I ask potential clients to take the following survey: Even though divorce is a...
