Archives for December 2009
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Divorce Out Of Court
Deb Gruver, in a Wichita Eagle article a few years ago, offers the idea behind collaborative family law is to make divorce less messy, less volatile, and less of a burden on the court system:
Not too many years ago, the only metal detectors at the Sedgwick County Courthouse were on the fourth floor, where [...]
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Collaborative Law Can Make Divorces Cheaper, Civilized
Mary Flood, of the Houston Chronicle, reports people like Walt Disney’s nephew, Roy Disney, who had a Collaborative Divorce in California, find the process cheaper, much more private, and far more civil than litigation:
Good marriages you’ve seen. How about a good divorce?
Some lawyers say there’s a way to a better matrimonial finale called “collaborative law.” [...]
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Divorced Financial Experts Point Positively to Collaboration and Mediation
A New York Times “Your Money” article, about what financial experts learned when their own marriages fell apart, points toward collaboration and mediation as more affordable, settlement oriented divorce process options:
Nobody can relate to the raw, visceral experience of ending a marriage better than someone who has gone through it. So it only seemed right [...]
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The Divorce Process You Choose May Have Huge Financial Implications
A New York Times “Your Money” article talks about divorce process options and how this choice can have significant financial implications:
Divorce may be one of the most damaging financial events in the lives of those who go through it, but that isn’t always immediately clear to a couple about to split up.
In fact, the first [...]
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Collaborative Financial Specialists Help Divorcing Couples Understand Their Options
In article in Forbes magazine, New York collaborative attorney and mediator Elizabeth Reingold explains how financial specialists help divorcing couples understand the financial implications of settlement options with information, analysis and projections:
What’s different about this story?
Recently, the more than 25-year-old marriage between Sam and June ran its course. Sam’s business was the family’s financial engine [...]
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Divorce and Separations Can Send Pets Into Legal Limbo
Jacques Von Lunen of The Daily Oregonian cites Collaborative Law and mediation as ways to peacefully resolve disputes regarding pets upon divorce:
There’s no doubt that our attitudes toward pets have changed over the years. Today, our pets have health insurance, are provided for in wills and receive medical care that just 10 years ago was [...]
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Suze Orman Recommends Collaborative Divorce
Suze Orman advocates Collaborative Divorce for those who seek “divorce with dignity:”
Q: My parents divorced when I was a child. My father remarried, and my siblings and I adored our stepmother. Over the past two years, though, things have changed. She got into a fight with my sister, which created a huge rift in [...]
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Getting a Divorce? Why it Pays to Play Nice.
Collaborative divorce offers splitting spouses a kinder, less expensive way to say “I don’t,” explains Carla Fried of CNNMoney.com:
(MONEY Magazine) – Breaking up is hard to do, not to mention expensive, as any of the more than 1 million couples who divorce each year can tell you. In fact, the decision to end a marriage [...]
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Parenting: Options for Resolving Disputes Among Divorcing Parents
Craig Silverman, a Massachusetts divorce lawyer, tells us about some of the options available to divorcing parents in resolving parenting conflicts:
This past winter my wife and I took our daughter to swimming class at the local YMCA. While we were there we ran into a friend of our daughter’s whose parents had recently [...]
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A Healing Approach To The Law.
In an article for the Christian Science Monitor, David A. Hoffman tells us why Collaborative law doesn’t have to be an oxymoron:
The civilized resolution of conflict in American society recently took a giant step forward with the issuance of an important ethics opinion by the American Bar Association (ABA) upholding the use of “collaborative law” [...]