The Experience
You do not need to navigate your separation alone. Allow a team of trusted professionals to guide you through an empowering process, creating the best possible outcome for you and your family.
Team Members
Collaborative Practice is a three-pronged approach involving mental health professionals, financial specialists and lawyers.

Lawyers
Your lawyer is on your side and helps you make the best choices.

Financial Specialists
Help figure out things like how to divide money and property fairly.

Parenting Coaches
Help parents understand what’s best for their kids.

Child Specialists
Make sure the children’s needs are prioritized.
Client Experience
What do client’s think about the Collaborative Process? Here is what one of our clients had to say:
“I developed a good relationship with my lawyer which was very helpful. She did an excellent job explaining the collaborative process and throughout the process did an excellent job answering my questions. She focused on finding solutions and did not focus on arguments.”
“My lawyer and the collaborative process focused on what I thought was important. “
“My lawyer and the collaborative process took into account the children and encouraged living arrangements that enabled my ex and myself to maintain a fairly good relationship with our children. Finally, my lawyer helped me get a financial settlement that I felt was fair and reasonable for both of us.”


Lawyer Experience
Using the collaborative process means choosing to resolve the issues arising from your separation together, with a team of professionals to guide you along the way.
You will each have your own lawyer and you are each responsible for payment of your lawyer’s fees. While the lawyers share a commitment to the collaborative process and the wellbeing of the family, each lawyer must represent their own client.
You agree to be respectful in your negotiations and to work with the professional team to achieve a mutually acceptable separation agreement, without going to court or arbitration. Clients, lawyers, and the other members of the professional team sign and are bound by a Collaborative Participation Agreement.
Both of you must be fully transparent and disclose of all relevant information, including financial information, whether requested or not.
The lawyers can only represent the clients in a collaborative process. This means that if a settlement is not achieved, the lawyers cannot represent the clients in a court or arbitration proceeding. The information exchanged during the collaborative process cannot be used in future court or arbitration proceedings, unless you mutually agree that reports, opinions, or notes can be used.
