Collaborative Divorce

We know from experience that only the collaborative divorce - not the old confrontation legal representation, not a single mediator working with or without the lawyer of the picture - views divorce as a complex experience requiring advice and counsel from many perspectives if you will navigate as well. Collaborative Divorce is prepared to deal with emotional challenges and changes related to divorce and provides resources that can best help make a healthy transition from married to single.

Collaborative divorce is based on the important protection for children, too. It tells you how full your children the experience of divorce and what they need to overcome the great changes in family structure without damage. He helps protect your future relationship with your partner tells you much good - all at the same time - on the financial realities of marriage and divorce in a way that eliminates unnecessary discussions on economic issues. He also teaches you and your new partner ways to solve problems and resolve conflicts so that you develop useful skills to carry out their differences more constructively in the future. In addition, the collaborative divorce

Help to clarify individual and shared values ​​and priorities

It helps you and your spouse reach a consensus maximum

Contains comprehensive advice on the law without resorting to legal rights as the only model of negotiation and conflict resolution

It helps you and your spouse resolve serious differences creatively and without destructive conflict

Help parents improve their ability to co-parent after divorce

Agreements to build for the future resolution of differences after the divorce is over

Attention not only to resolve past differences, but also for planning a healthy responses to current challenges and that a solid foundation for the future after the divorce is over

Goals for solving deep, peace is not low

Because you do not want 'old-fashioned Divorce "

We believe that as people we work with every day that you want to protect you and your family from the chaos as the old divorce can cause in your life. Summarize the facts you now know about the old divorce:

It is based on centuries-old belief that divorce is bad and abnormal

We try to find fault and inflict punishment

It focuses on the past

It is based on conflict

It is arbitrary to limit the legal framework to resolve the problems of right and wrong, the exchange of money

Its purpose is to address, not a depth resolution

It does not take into account the current concepts of how people connect, what they need in times of change, what children need during and after divorce, and how families change and restructure

In addition, we know that the old divorce is bad for individuals, families and communities because

It is expensive

It is hurtful and damaging

It is "one size fits all"

It is not relevant to many common problems that are extremely important to most people, because judges can not issue binding orders on them

It focuses on the past

It encourages unrealistic expectations on the part of both partners on what should happen in a divorce

It solves conflicts by competing predictions of what a judge would instead focus on what you and your partner can agree on

It will provide crucial assistance to you or your loved ones

Incalculable emotional and social costs

Fortunately, we live in a time when there is finally a better solution - one that can end a marriage without destroying a family or set in motion adverse effects that can afflict family members for a lifetime.

Why Collaborative Divorce works so well

Why collaborative divorce does a good job to help most people achieve their "best divorce" are simple. Collaborative divorce focuses on financial and legal aspects to be resolved in any divorce, but does so more efficiently, providing a help function of three professionals, not just one. The design of collaborative divorce - with its professional team, systematic attention to values, the emphasis on healthy relationships, and focus on the future - taking into account the wide range of what really matters to most people when their marriages end. It considers not only the spouses, but those around them, which also account for the divorcing couple and that will be both directly and indirectly affected by a good or a bad divorce, children, families and even family, friends and colleagues.

This is what we know about marriage and divorce realms of psychology, sociology, history, law, communication theory, conflict theory, finance, and other areas in a very practical, useful and concrete.

Divorce collaborative arrangements with people with experience in divorce.

Unlike any process of resolution of other conflict divorce that has come before, makes the use of team collaboration divorce constant vital information on how humans are "wired" how we think about how our emotions affect our ability to communicate effectively and treat information, how we experience pain and loss, how we get from the end of a marriage that is what our children are and what they need to divorce and the needs of each family member after the divorce is likely to be. In this way, the divorce of constructive collaboration, global, multidisciplinary professional support that corresponds to the real complexity of divorce that people experience, rather than imposing an older, limited legal perspective and institutional perspective that the only a complex human experience.