Avoid
going to court by using a Team of professionals to resolve family issues
with dignity and support.
Collaborative
Team Divorce
Providing Divorcing Couples with:
- Collaborative Lawyers
- Coaching Support
- Family consultation
- Neutral Financial Expertise
*Using the Collaborative Divorce Model ™
Collaborative Team Divorce is a team of divorce specialists
working together with a divorcing couple. The Team helps contain conflict
and assists the family to restructure from a single-family into a two-family
system. The process reduces stress and conserves the entire family's
emotional and financial resources.
Couples going through the divorce process need all the
support they can marshal. The free flow of information among Team members
helps the couple go through the divorce process with the enhanced potential
for improved communication and parenting skills, as well as a better
understanding of money matters.
The process is cost effective for couples with or without
children.
Collaborative Lawyers
Each spouse is represented by a family-law lawyer as part of the Team
with the understanding that the attorneys will work with the couple
for settlement, normally through four-way conferences, and will not
engage in adversarial court proceedings.
When settlement is accomplished, the collaborative lawyers
will process the agreement without court appearances.
Coaches
Each spouse has a coach who usually is a licensed mental health professional.
The coach for each person:
- Works to reduce the individual's personal stress;
- Helps coach positive parenting skills and develop a
parenting plan;
- Teaches communication skills;
- Gives valuable input to the Team in order to facilitate
settlement.
Family Consultant
The Child Specialist:
- Assesses the children's reaction to family changes,
addressing each child's worries, hopes fears and needs;
- Listens to parents' fears and concerns about the children;
- Gives feedback to parents about the children and their
needs;
- Works with parents to develop a parenting plan;
- Assists the parents in learning skills to co-parent
after divorce.
Financial Specialist
A neutral professional with financial skills:
- Assists the couple in collecting financial information;
- Assesses financial issues and analyzes tax consequences;
- Develops a financial plan which addresses the long
term financial welfare of each spouse;
- Provides assistance with practical financial matters
such as budgets, debt and checkbook management when necessary;
- Is available to the Team as a resource.
Collaborative Family Law
The purpose of the Collaborative Law Institute is to create
and practice collaborative non-adversarial strategies to help clients
is family law matters achieve agreement in a dignigied and respectful
manner.
Transforming family law into a collaborative process.
Ask for a list of Collaborative Team Divorce Professionals
when you write or call:
COLLABORATIVE LAW INSTITUTE
3300 Edinborough Way
Suite 550
Edina MN, 54435
952-806-9787.
or visit the website at
www.collaborativelaw.org
