Should I Consider Mediation or Collaborative Family Law Representation?




Are You Concerned About:

• The impact of your separation, divorce, or conflict/dispute on your children?
• How to minimize the disharmony, stress, and mistrust often associated with these situations and transitions in life?
• The costs associated with resolving a divorce or your dispute?
• Relinquishing control to others for decisions that will affect your life and the lives of your children?
• How to communicate and express your opinions effectively to the other person?
• How you and the other parent will decide your parenting and financial matters during this transition?
• The length of time a typical traditional court-based divorce/court decision takes?
• How you will fair financially after the divorce/separation?
• How to establish and maintain a co-parenting relationship with the other parent?
• Maintaining your respect and dignity during this difficult time in your life?
• Reaching agreements that both you and the other person/parent will follow and honor?
• Identifying and addressing all the needs of everyone involved?
• How you will co-parent with the other parent after the divorce is finalized?
  
  
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  “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man...”

  Abraham Lincoln