Today’s Virtual World of Divorce and Dispute Resolution: A Time for Creativity
Creativity is King for professional practices in today’s virtual world. For the legal profession, including divorce and family law attorneys and mediators, out of court settlement is essentially the only game in town, unless the client has what the New York courts consider to be an emergency. Most divorce cases that do not involve serious domestic violence are not considered to be emergencies. Out of court settlements include collaborative divorces, divorce mediations, and kitchen table divorces, in which the couple negotiates their own deal and a lawyer drafts the settlement agreement. Once the agreement is drafted and fine-tuned, either by teleconference (Zoom), email or telephone, then the final agreement can be notarized remotely. In New York State at this time, remote notarization via teleconference is legal. And, remote processes like remote notarization enable important things, like the signing of binding legal documents, to get done. Negotiations via Zoom are rapidly … Read More...