Kales & Kales is proud to announce Jonathan Kales was elected by his peers to serve as president-elect of the Collaborative Professionals of Northern Virginia, the largest collaborative divorce practice group in Virginia, and will serve as the group’s president in 2014. CPNV’s members are divorce lawyers, mental health...
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Jonathan Kales’ collaborative divorce client, Dick White, and his wife, Margie, were on CNN in a piece about divorce after 50. . Just six months after their divorce, they come across as warm, well adjusted, and still caring very much for one another. How are these folks able to do...
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Power Couple: a couple, where both members have tremendously successful careers, or are politically powerful, or are celebrities, or all three. What are some examples: Barack and Michelle Obama, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, James Carville and Mary Matalin, Mia Hamm and Nomar Garciaparra, and Amy and Jonathan Kales. What? You say Amy...
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What is the “disqualification clause?” When you divorce collaboratively, you and your spouse sign a participation agreement where, if the process breaks down, their lawyers must withdraw from the case and may not represent them in court. What? Why would you agree to that? Intuitively, if you have not...
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Indifference. If you phone or email your attorney, and they don’t get back to you within 24 hours, 48 hours max, unless they have a good excuse (e.g., they’re on vacation), the lawyer probably isn’t terribly interested in you or your case. Before you ask, yes, lawyers are allowed to...
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