The team based approach to divorce
Both parties can work together to resolve their
differences
The parties come to the process voluntarily
having specifically chosen this route themselves.
In the traditional approach, you have two lawyers with their clients
effectively standing behind them. The two lawyers pit their wits
against each other, the aim being to “get their best for their
client”.
Certain matters are withheld in order to “protect
their client’s case”. It is clearly one brain against the other and
it is adversarial and the clients do not have control over the
process.
Compare this with Collaborative Law – a frank open process, where
there are four people who have come to the process voluntarily,
because clients want to keep control of their own destiny.
The lawyers have a duty to their own clients
respectively, but they also have a duty to the process and to the
family as a whole. The clients come to the
Collaborative Law process in a
spirit of frankness and openness and the aim from the outset is to
achieve the best divorce
solution for both of the parties and the whole family. The
chances of a more suitable and more satisfactory solution are
greatly increased, because in the Collaborative Law process, you now
have four brains working on one problem in the spirit of openness
and with the sincere wish to achieve the best outcome.
The Collaborative
Law approach is based on the fact that the parties will act in
their own best interests rather than in a way that would lessen the
outcome for the other person if they do not fear retaliation –
people make better decisions in the absence of conflict.
Training
Other
specialist experts can also be involved
Declaration of Aspirations
Hot Button
Issues between the parties
Participation Agreement in Collaborative Law
Tailored divorce solutions
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