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How Does Collaborative Divorce Keep Our Finances Private?
Financial privacy is a factor that is often overlooked when you are considering a divorce process option. However, safeguarding your financial information and keeping your financial life private during and after your divorce is a major benefit to the Collaborative Divorce Process. Courtroom battles will often times expose your personal and business financial lives…
How Should I Communicate With Our Children About Divorce?
Parenting through a divorce is a challenging time that requires you to be honest with yourself, and to put in the extra work to help your children work through the major changes in their family structure. Here are some tips and helpful questions to ask if you are a parent that is working to help…
How Do I Put My Children’s Interest First In Divorce?
Divorce for parents is different, and it’s harder. You ask yourself, what impact will separation and divorce have on our children? Is there a scenario where divorce could be healthier for me and our children? What can I do before, during and after the divorce to help our children adjust and thrive through this difficult…
Collaborative Divorce: What Happens When We Don’t Agree?
Overcoming Disagreements In Collaborative Divorce One of the most remarkable aspects of the collaborative divorce process is its ability to address and overcome even the most challenging disagreements. Here’s how collaborative divorce facilitates resolution in the face of adversity: 1. Respectful Communication & Knowledge: Open, respectful communication is the cornerstone of collaborative divorce. By fostering…
What Do Spouses Ask For Most In Collaborative Divorce?
One of the cornerstones of collaborative divorce is defining goals and interests that will help you and your family transition to the next phase in life peacefully and respectfully. Below, I have outlined a list of the 5 most common goals and interests that we help families to define and accomplish in their collaborative divorce…
How Does Child Support Work In Collaborative Divorce?
Child Support in Collaborative Divorce: Key Considerations In collaborative divorce in Florida, establishing child support is an important step that carries with it many other considerations for your children and for your family. Here are some key points to understand: 1. Determining Child Support: In Florida, child support is primarily calculated based on the state’s…
How Does the Length of My Marriage Affect My Divorce?
When it comes to divorce, each state has its own set of rules and laws that govern the process. In Florida, the length of your marriage is an important factor that is considered under our divorce law. The duration of your marriage is certainly not the only important factor to consider in divorce, but it…
Should I Google My Divorce Attorney?
Google is a very helpful tool for all of us, and it’s free. As we have all learned in life, lawyers and doctors and accountants and other professionals are not created equal. There are good ones and there are bad ones. Google Reviews: Google reviews tell you and I what past clients have to say…
Divorce Court Is Not Good For Your Business
The last thing that you need as a small business owner is to make a legal mess of your divorce. What is a legal mess? You know the answer – court dates, delays, lawyers taking control of your divorce, your financial affairs being combed through with a fine-tooth comb by forensic accountants – two…
What Is Different About Collaborative Divorce?
I am asked regularly about how Collaborative Divorce works, and what makes it different. One of the best resources to answer this question is the first letter written about Collaborative Divorce by Stu Webb, the Minnesota family law attorney that is widely recognized as the father of Collaborative Divorce. Stu worked in the legal…