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The Collaborative Law Revolution: An Idea Whose Time Has Come In Nevada: April, 2004 edition of Nevada Lawyer (State Bar of Nevada), by the Hon. Robert W. Lueck, Family Court Division.
Collaboration is Critical
Chicago Tribune: February 9, 2005
No one needed to tell Kathe Aldrich the grim statistics about women and money and divorce. She and her husband, Charles, had been married nearly 30 years when he asked for a divorce. She immediately began worrying about her financial future.
The Rolling Meadows couple has no children, and Kathe Aldrich, 52, has worked full time for 30 years. Nevertheless, she worried that a nasty court fight could drain her finances. So she and her husband turned to a process known as collaborative divorce and were able to officially split in July without sabotaging their portfolios.
The collaborative process, started by Minneapolis family lawyer Stuart Webb in 1990, provides alternative dispute resolution using a team of professionals working jointly for the couple, rather than in adversarial roles...(more)
Tips For Parents Engaged in the Collaborative Law Process
By Gay G. Cox, J.D. and Honey A. Sheff, Ph.D.
You are to be commended for choosing the collaborative law process as the means to solve the problems you and your child(ren)'s other parent are having. It is evident that you want the best possible outcome for your children and see this as a means of achieving it. Based on experience with families who select this method of problem-solving, it is apparent that they tend to have some very important common values...(more).
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