In many circumstances, the adversarial nature
of traditional divorce lawsuits can make the situation even worse as parents are encouraged to make negative statements about one another, rather than concentrate on making a plan that best suits the children as well as the parents.
Negotiation, Mediation, Collaborative Law and Arbitration are effective family law options that can reduce the cost, conflict, and chaos
of a traditional divorce.
However, because of the increased conflict and cost
of traditional divorce, many couples find it worth the investment to see if a collaborative divorce process will work for them, before resorting to a more adversarial process.
By circumventing a win / lose, either / or approach and focusing instead on a positive resolution for all parties, you'll complete your divorce at a fraction of the cost
of a traditional divorce.
Your Collaborative Coach can help you side step some of the more painful conflicts that are often part
of a traditional divorce.
Jan's settlement team treated both of us with respect and helped us move away from the overwhelming stress and potential animosity that seems to be so much a part
of traditional divorce.
This interactive, high energy training is designed for family law attorneys, mental health practitioners, and financial professionals who want to learn to use Collaborative Divorce to help families divorce in a respectful and constructive way, avoiding much of the stress and animosity typical
of traditional divorce litigation.
(SAN DIEGO)-- More than 30 years of research continues to reveal negative effects
of traditional divorce on children.
Alternative dispute resolution allows many of the shortcomings
of a traditional divorce to be addressed.
These ex-spouse wannabe, she notes, avoid the out - of - control expenses, lengthy delays, and emotional trauma
of traditional divorce litigation.
I am a divorce attorney and I help people just like you end their marriages without having to suffer the uncertainty and painful drama that is often part
of the traditional divorce process.
One of the most painful aspects
of the traditional divorce process is that it seems to drag on forever.
Your company does not have to be a casualty
of the traditional divorce process.
Collaborative divorce is different from the services
of a traditional divorce lawyer.
Perhaps one of the most important reasons people choose collaborative divorce instead
of traditional divorce litigation is because of the sense of respect and open communication it fosters, which makes for a healthier family after the divorce.
Maybe you have minor children and need to get along for their sake, or maybe you want to avoid the time and expense
of the traditional divorce process.
In practical terms, this means that the attorneys are not conducting the usual opposition research to highlight an opposing party's parental or other flaws in preparation for trial (which can be the most destructive part
of the traditional divorce process).
The length of time needed for a collaborative divorce is often substantially less than
that of the traditional divorce process, where the parties are at the mercy of the court's schedule.
Mediation is a form of alternative dispute resolution that avoids the lengthiness, emotional difficulty, and potential expense
of traditional divorce litigation.
After handling hundreds
of traditional divorces, Mohiuddin realized that the adversarial approach was taking an unnecessary toll on her clients.
Not exact matches
Crosby estimates that
divorce professionals spend only 20 percent
of the time on a Wevorce case that they would spend on a
traditional divorce.
I think
of a
traditional CEO as being
divorced from customers.
As a matter
of prudence, prioritizing the wrongness
of same - sex marriage over
divorce or contraception (or even masturbation) only serves to reinforce the claim that Christians are motivated by some kind
of anti-gay animus when they defend
traditional marriage laws.
A twice -
divorced preacher railing against homosexuality is more likely to be perceived as a bigot and hypocrite than as a champion
of «
traditional values.»
Having regularly flirted with ideas
of meditation and transcendence, in 2012 he married and later
divorced popstar Katy Perry (formerly a Christian recording artist and the daughter
of two American church pastors, Keith and Mary Hudson) in a
traditional Hindu ceremony.
Jacobs was thrown off at first when Rabbi Schacter introduced the session by handing out a three - ring binder filled with photocopies
of rabbinic legal sources regarding the proper execution
of a get (a» get» is a
traditional Jewish document
of divorce)-- a matter with no apparent relevance to the session's supposed topic.
If we add to this the sexual activity
of young men
of the same age,
of gay men and lesbian women at a later stage
of life, and that
of unmarried and
divorced heterosexual couples, it becomes clear that the sexual practice
of people in our society is quite different from that held to be normative by the
traditional teaching
of the churches.
Our Western culture has moved so rapidly in the past half century, our ways
of thinking have been so affected by the scientific, technological, and secular advances, that our situation seems
divorced almost completely from society as presupposed in biblical and
traditional theological thinking.
Enlightenment shifted the view
of divorce from a
traditional family focused unit for the protection
of children to an individual focus
of the adults involved.
In Matthew 19:4 — 5, Jesus encourages a
traditional path, but does not discourage alternatives, except in the case
of divorce.
In Matthew 19: 4 - 5, Jesus encourages a
traditional path, but does not discourage alternatives, except in the case
of divorce.
Those who do not accept the regime
of the unlimited abortion license, sexual liberation,
divorce, and the wholesale assault on what are called
traditional values should simply get lost.
The result is that the black alliance within the Democratic party is not with other racial minorities but with ideologically based groupings» feminists, gays, unions» who are now
divorced from the values
of the party's
traditional base, not to mention those
of the black public (Jesse Jackson, for example, flip - flopped on almost all these issues once he decided to run for the nomination).
The modern dimension
of this wager is that our time is so obviously
divorced from the time
of Jesus, or, at least, our world and history is clearly estranged from the classical world
of Christendom, with the consequence that to choose the
traditional form
of Christ is either to set oneself against the contemporary world or to decide that the actuality
of one's time and situation can have no bearing upon one's faith in Christ.
I was intrigued by the particularities
of their lives - the trunks
of books carried by boat onto remote islands, the tiny incestuous circle
of fellow anthropologists, the
divorcing from «
traditional» society, and the drive for notoriety and that one big discovery.
But now, after I married and
divorced twice, and have a pretty full life — financial security (more or less), a house, kids, a career, a group
of amazing gal pals I call the Lovelies and on whom I can depend — the
traditional love script seems unnecessary.
Finally, we have chosen to avoid the
traditional terminology surrounding
divorce and child (ren) by using terms that more accurately describe the reorganization
of our former family to new homes or dual households.
Divorced parents provide care to their children in any number
of ways, from the
traditional custody / visitation arrangement to more equitable shared custody plans.
Poor people hold more
traditional values toward marriage and
divorce than people with moderate and higher incomes, UCLA psychologists report in the current issue
of the Journal
of Marriage and Family.
Coauthors licensed therapist Gadoua (Stronger Day by Day; Contemplating
Divorce) and journalist Larson present a refreshing analysis
of the institution
of marriage and explain various creative alternatives to the
traditional approach to it.
Each family is unique,
of course, but in those families in which children are securely attached to two parents who have been integrally involved as caregivers since their children's birth, co-parenting after
divorce is vital to children's well - being, and current attachment research, as opposed to the views
of traditional attachment theorists, strongly supports this position.
Moreover, research by Harvard and Chicago universities has shown that dating online can provide a firm basis for marital success, with lower
divorce rates and higher satisfaction levels than those who meet by
traditional means.5 Internet dating has also proven effective for religious couples, with research revealing success rates
of marriage using Christian dating services to be 10 % higher than the average.
A study led by faculty
of the University
of Chicago's Psychology Department found marriages stemming from online relationships were less likely than
traditional marriages to end in separation or
divorce.
What sets CupidsPulse.com apart from
traditional gossip sites is its use
of entertainment news as a catalyst to spark conversation about relationship topics such as marriage,
divorce, pregnancy, and being single, offering advice to those who may be in a similar situation as their favorite celebrity.
In a more slow - moving and
traditional society, would they have taken the
divorce option if the stigma
of divorce wasn't so great?
But authors» top priority was not
divorced from commercial concerns, with around 56 %
of self - pubbers, and almost 60 %
of traditional authors, judging it «extremely important» to «publish a book that people will buy».
In a
traditional divorce, couples with children would have the stress
of child support and custody arrangements.
Once
traditional causes
of foreclosure are factored in (
divorce, major illness), cash flow problems added up to a whopping 80 %
of all «causes»
of defaulted mortgages nationwide.
Her contemporary approach to these materials is
divorced from their
traditional applications, while still remaining rooted in the history
of photography.
Resulting visual experiments triggered a loosening
of traditional spatial perspectives and color relationships that in turn predicted the digital space
of computation, where distortions are understandably but somewhat ironically manifested in a virtual space that is
divorced from existential dilemma.