The Collaborative Divorce Team - How It Can Help

Divorce is a confusing, chaotic and uncertain time. When will you recover from your hurt, anger and fear? What will happen with your home?  Will you ever have financial security? Are you overwhelmed by your finances and worried about how divorce will affect your financial future? How are you going to get through your divorce when there is so much stress, confusion and pain?                                      

How are your children going to manage? Are you concerned about your children and their future?  Children of divorce are vulnerable. How will you pay for your children’s education or fund your retirement?  The choices you make now will impact your and your family's future for many years. You want the best for your children.

Collaborative Divorce can help you solve the legal, emotional, financial and parenting issues.You will have a full Team of Collaborative Professionals working with you and your spouse to provide you with expertise in each of these areas.

You and your spouse will select all of the professional members of your Team at the beginning of your case. You will each choose a Collaborative Lawyer and together you will select a Communication Specialist and a neutral Financial Specialist, if your financial situation warrants it.

The Collaborative Professionals on your Team will counsel, guide, support and educate you as you make decisions about your future. You will do all of this without going to court. You will sign a Collaborative Commitment Agreement, sometimes called a Participation Agreement, to start your Collaborative Divorce.  This Agreement will outline the essential principals of Collaboration. If either of you violates the agreement and goes to court, all the Collaborative Team members must withdraw from the case. This rarely happens. Maybe because the team approach is so helpful to divorcing families, the vast majority of collaborative divorce practice cases reach successful settlement.