Instead
of being a process as originally envisioned (and as this author originally was trained) in which clients choose «no - court» lawyers (usually for their divorces) and then, if needed, mutually hire
various other
kinds of professionals (such as property appraisers, tax experts, pension advisors, educational experts, child
development or parenting specialists), these newly reconstituted collaborative law groups posit that collaborative law can and should be viewed as a «therapeutic jurisprudence» team approach in which divorce emotional and relationship issues are assumed to be addressed along with the legal issues.