As a licensed child therapist, Little found the process to be so beneficial that she decided to focus her practice
on collaborative law divorces.
I believe strongly that marriage is a wonderful opportunity for growth and because I also
do collaborative law divorce coaching I know that marriages should be saved if at all possible.
In collaborative law divorce, your spouse's attorney and I sign a binding contract to drop out of the case if we can not come to an agreement.
According to her estimates, the average family
collaborative law divorce takes about 6.9 months, compared with anywhere from 12 to 18 months for contested divorces.
She also frequently teams with family law attorneys on
Collaborative Law divorce cases, works as a Parent Coordinator with couples and families, and is an instructor, trainer, and speaker on a variety of topics.
As the
first collaborative law divorce resource group in the Florida Panhandle, the Northwest Florida Collaborative Law Group serves the couples and families throughout Bay and surrounding counties including Walton, Jackson, Holmes, Washington and Gulf.
A collaborative law divorce is different than mediation in that in the collaborative process, the dispute is resolved without litigation pending, such as a complaint for divorce.
Mediated and
collaborative law divorces are the wave of the future.
Unlike the common misconception, the cost of
a collaborative law divorce can be as high or more than that of a typical litigated divorce.
When you pursue
a collaborative law divorce, both parties agree that they will not go to court or even threaten the other party with litigation.
In
a collaborative law divorce, a team of professionals is available to the divorcing couple, and all involved agree in advance that the goal is to work out a fair settlement, not to threaten each other with litigation.
The first time I used a neutral mental health professional in
a collaborative law divorce, my entire idea of what it meant to be a good lawyer changed.
In
a collaborative law divorce the parties stay out of the courthouse and focus on solving problems through business like negotiations versus assessing blame for problems in adversarial litigation.
With
a collaborative law divorce you create opportunities for an amicable divorce, where low cost strategies are made possible through inexpensive family law divorce advice, effective consultation time, and finally a plan to create a no fight divorce resolution for all parties involved.
The hallmarks of
the Collaborative Law divorce process are an agreement from everyone at the outset to exclude all court proceedings, and engage the services of various professionals, known as «the team» to assist in the resolution of all issues.
A collaborative law divorce is different than mediation in that in the collaborative process, the dispute is resolved without litigation pending, such as a complaint for divorce.
Little emphasized that
collaborative law divorce doesn't remove the intensity or emotion during the process, but it makes it easier to co-exist after.
The hallmarks of
the Collaborative Law divorce process is an agreement from everyone at the outset to exclude all court proceedings, and engage the services of various professionals, known as «the team» to make assist in the resolution of all issues.
Contact me, Cynthia Lazar, to learn more about mediated and
collaborative law divorces.