8 Reasons to Use Collaborative Divorce Law

1. Collaborative Divorce Law is designed to be less time consuming, less expensive and less confrontational than traditional adversarial divorce.
   
2. Clients are better able to focus on pertinent issues because stress and anxiety are effectively reduced.
   
3. Money saved in the collaboration can be used to jointly engage the services of other professionals, such as financial planners, tax professionals and/or accountants.
   
4. The collaborative process is more private than a contested divorce that generates court filings, transcripts and hearings in open court. If the children decide to look at the court file in the future, all they will see is the agreement attached to a simple divorce petition.
5. Collaborative Divorce Law resolutions are reached through a process in which clients have more control.
   
6. Settlements are designed to meet each party's needs.
   
7. Agreements are more sustainable over longer periods of time because they are designed, from the start, to “play it forward..” and think about future needs.
8. The non-combative atmosphere of Collaborative Divorce Law:

• diminishes hostilities
• allows the divorcing spouses to preserve and enhance the remains of their relationship
• teaches the divorcing spouses to work cooperatively during and after the divorce to manage finances and co-parent children.