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Collaborative Divorce – Separation by Committee

Divorce Lawyers, Training Coaches, Financial Advisors and Child Specialists

The traditional model of adversarial legal representation views divorce as a complex process that requires costly legal advice from a number of perspectives. Collaborative Divorce, by contrast is non-adversarial.
This article discusses the co-operative benefits of Collaborative Divorce, including professional support.

We have seen from experience that the traditional model of adversarial legal representation views divorce as a complex process that requires costly legal advice from a number of perspectives. Collaborative divorce, however, is non-adversarial, as the two divorce parties jointly select a team of professionals to help them weed through the divorce process in a co-operative, orderly fashion.

Separation by Committee

Collaborative divorce enables you to facilitate your divorce yourselves under the guidance of a team of professionals. Typically, a collaborative divorce team will include one or two divorce lawyers, divorce coaches, a financial advisor and a child specialist. In this manner, both you and your ex-spouse can manage the emotional challenges of divorce in a calm fashion, thereby offering you a healthy transition from married to single. More specifically, the:

Divorce Lawyers – provide ongoing legal advice.
Divorce Coaches – mediate all matters of dispute between the two parties…
Financial Advisor – offers neutral guidance on all economic issues.
Child Specialist – advises you on your children’s emotional state.

Why Collaborative Divorce Works So Well

Working together with a team of professionals, affords you the one-stop opportunity to gain input from all perspectives of an issue at once. Collaborative teams ensure a systematic attention to values, help you re-build a healthy relationship, and focus on the future.

This approach to divorce integrates what we know about marriage and divorce from the realms of psychology, sociology, history, law, communication theory, conflict resolution theory, finance, and the like in a very practical, useful, and concrete way. Collaborative divorce teams offer constructive, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary professional support that are in tune with the actual complexities of divorce as people experience it. This is opposed to the rather imposing textbook legal points of view common with traditional means of divorce.

Collaborative Therapy Game for Children of Divorce

Earthquake in Zipland is an interactive computer game that helps kids cope with the stressful effects of divorce / separation, by providing them with a non-threatening platform for expressing their hidden feelings and asking questions. Parenting after divorce and child therapy, becomes easier with Zipland, as children learn to accept their new reality that much faster.

Sources:Collaborative Divorce: The Revolutionary New Way to Restructure Your Family, Resolve Legal Issues, and Move on with Your Life by Pauline H. Tesler, M.A., J.D., & Peggy Thompson, Ph.D. Copyright © 2006 Pauline H. Tesler & Peggy Thompson. Published by Regan Books; June 2006;$25.95US/$33.50CAN; 0-06-088943-8

April 25, 2007 · Filed Under Divorce and Legal Issues, Collaborative Divorce, All Child Divorce Articles