Category: Collaborative Divorce
Saving on the Cost of Divorce
Collaborating When Litigating a Divorce. An Oxymoron?
Divorce: Why consider Collaborative?
Co-Parenting and Collaborative Divorce
What Kind of Collaborative Advocacy Do You Need?
When you and your spouse choose collaborative practice as the process for resolving your divorce, it is critical that your collaborative lawyer provide the advocacy that you need, and that your voice is heard during the settlement conferences.
What is the advocacy that you need from your collaborative divorce attorney? Very simply, that depends on you and what you need at any given moment in the collaborative case. Collaborative practice is very fluid settlement process and there is a spectrum of advocacy that an experienced and well-trained collaborative lawyer can provide.
Children and Divorce
Why Collaborative Divorce or Mediation?
Collaboration is not weakness
Prospective divorce clients often have a concern that utilizing the collaborative process to resolve their divorce may put them in a weak position. Such a client may feel that the other spouse took advantage of him/her during the marriage, so why won’t the other spouse do the same in the collaborative divorce process?
Collaborative Skills Can Settle Your Divorce or Save Your Life
Dr. Marshal B. Rosenberg in his book entitled “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life,” demonstrates the use of peacemaking techniques known as active listening, reframing or looping. When one is engaged in active listening, one listens very carefully to the speaker, and repeats back the gist of the substance of what was said, as well as the emotion expressed by the speaker.