You're a good candidate for the collaborative law process if you'd like to:

• Reduce stress and animosity rather than nurture bad feelings;
• Promote effective communication between partners rather than play the "blame game";
• Retain decision-making control rather than having strangers decide your fate;
• Achieve results reflective of everyone's needs rather than winning at all costs;
• Provide a healthy co-parenting relationship that meets the children's needs rather than having children caught in the middle;
• Invest in the future rather than waste money in litigation arguing about the past;
• Protect privacy rather than revealing intimate matters in the public record;
• Improve the odds for long-term cooperation—making agreements that will be kept rather than broken;
• Preserve the positive aspects of relationships rather than denying or destroying them;
• Accomplish this life transition in a civil and respectful manner.