Is The Collaborative Family Law Process The Right Choice?

The Association of Collaborative Family Lawyers offers alternative dispute resolution and divorce processes that have many advantages:

• Both clients have skilled legal advisers at every stage of the process. Both collaborative lawyers understand how to reach creative settlements. You are never on your own; your collaborative lawyer is at your side, explaining issues and helping you to achieve goals by mutual participation and agreement.
• Both clients will spend less money and time using the Collaborative Family Law Process.
• Both clients and their collaborative lawyers agree in advance to work only toward a settlement acceptable to both clients. Litigation can never be threatened. Neither you nor your spouse will be permitted to play games or take advantage of each other.
• The collaborative lawyers share with their clients a financial incentive to make the Collaborative Family Law Process work. The collaborative lawyers have not succeeded unless they help you create a win-win solution. They are "out of a job" if the process breaks down.
• The collaborative lawyers are concerned about the mediation process as well as the outcome.
• Clients and collaborative lawyers work together as members of the settlement team, rather than working against each other as "opposing parties".
• The Association of Collaborative Family Lawyers consist only of respected collaborative family law lawyers who practice independently of one another. Each collaborative lawyer has special training in Mediation, Negotiation and the Collaborative Family Law Process of dispute resolution.