Advantages

What are the advantages of Interdisciplinary Collaborative Divorce?

Collaborative Practice offers many distinct advantages:

• Protects children – With the assistance of your team, particularly your coach, emotional difficulties between the adults are appropriately addressed without involving the children.
• Children’s needs are given priority – Children are the unheard voices of divorce. In Collaborative Divorce they are provided with a Child Specialist who gives them voice.
• Creates a cooperative and non-adversarial environment – Collaborative Practice is based on open disclosure, respect for others and the desire to come to a settlement in a way that does least harm to all involved.
• Addresses the family’s questions and concerns – Professionals from different disciplines are available to answer questions from adults and children as they relate to the legal, emotional or financial aspects of the divorce.
• Creates an equitable co-parenting plan – Collaborative coaches support the parents as they create a parenting plan that is workable for all family members.
• Preserves the dignity and self-respect of the parties – When working from the “higher-self,” understanding and acceptance becomes a more palatable part of the process.
• Preserves privacy – The information shared in Collaborative Divorce is confidential between team members. In litigation, all information is public record.
• Promotes effective use of time – The collaborative process is usually less costly and time-consuming than litigation. There is no waiting for a court date.
• Allows the parties to retain control of the process – As the key members of the team, you and your spouse take responsibility for shaping the settlement. This is done with the assistance of the team.
• Reduces conflict, anxiety and uncertainty – With a commitment to open disclosure and mutual respect, surprises are a rare and unusual occurrence.
• Addresses interim and long-term solutions – The collaborative process addresses the needs of each party from the beginning of case into the future. It looks beyond the pain and frustration of the current moment to plan for the long-term.
• Promotes the most effective use of financial and emotional resources – By using the appropriate professional for a particular concern, clients get what each does best. Emotional concerns are best addressed by the coach, financial by the financial specialist and legal by the attorneys.

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