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| FAQs |
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| Is Collaborative Law right for you and your family? |
| Collaborative Law can be right for you and your family. You may want to consider a collaborative approach to your divorce or family law matter when: |
- You want a civilized, respectful resolution of the issues.
- You want to keep open the possibility of friendship with your former partner down the road.
- You and your former partner want to be co-parenting your child or children together and you want the best co-parenting relationship possible.
- You want to protect your child or children from the harm associated with litigated dispute-resolution between parents.
- You and your partner have a circle of friends and extended family in common that you both want to remain connected to.
- You have ethical or spiritual beliefs that place high value on taking personal responsibility for handling conflicts with integrity.
- You value privacy in your personal affairs and do not want details of your family restructuring to be available in the public court record.
- You value control and autonomous decision-making and do not want to hand over decisions about restructuring your financial and/or child-rearing arrangements to a stranger (i.e., a judge).
- You recognize the restricted range of outcomes and “rough justice” generally available in the public court system, and want a more creative and individualized range of choices available to you and your former partner for resolving your issues.
- You place as much value on the relationships that will exist in your restructured family as you place on getting the most money for yourself.
- You understand that conflict resolution with integrity involves achieving not only your own goals but finding a way to achieve the reasonable goals of the other person.
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