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Separating and Divorcing with a Child with Special Needs
For some years I’ve had the honor of facilitating conversations between parents of children with special needs and school districts as they coordinate efforts to develop the most appropriate educational plan to ensure success for these children. I quickly realized my...
What is a Financial Neutral?
You may have heard the term “Financial Neutral” used regarding litigation or alternate dispute resolution. This blog discusses Financial Neutrals and the services they provide. A Financial Neutral is an independent financial expert who works with both parties in...
Funding for a Special Needs Child Should be Part of a Divorce Settlement Agreement
A huge problem for many parents of disabled individuals is that they have spent a large share of their assets – and often much of their earning capacity for the care of their disabled child over the years. When you ask clients how much they think they need to leave to...
Get Your “Day in Court” That You Will Never Get In Court
Collaborative Law Allows Everyone to Be Heard while Streamlining the Process to a Peaceful Resolution People feel they have no choice in their divorce process – that they have to fight and “go to court” in order to be protected. It is just what you do. In my...
Five Important Considerations In Choosing Collabrative Law
For many people, not litigating, or going to court, is more beneficial than going to court. Collaborative Law is an ideal method of resolving property division, child and spousal support issues and child custody issues. There are traditionally three methods of...
What You Need to Know About Collaborative Law
The large footprint of Collaborative law is now reaching across all areas of the legal system. Pennsylvania enacted its Collaborative Law statute recently. Collaborative law is an increasingly popular form of dispute resolution in which parties agree to resolve their...
Why Collaborative Law?
So, we have all been on those express highways, right? The ones that are supposed to be faster? Well, you are not really in control. You have no way to get off. You can't get to a bathroom. You can't really get a gas station in what seems like a hundred miles. You...
What’s Grief Got to do with Divorce?
Many people often immediately associate grief with the loss of life. It’s as if the word grief can only pertain to the worst loss that we can think of. As a society, we often shun grief as if it’s transmissible like an illness that we don’t want to catch. We often...
Collaborative Magic- One Size Does Not Fit All
The Collaborative Divorce process is a magical and transformational process in many ways. First, and most important, is the promotion of self-direction, or the ability to take control over one’s own life outcome with the support of a team of caring professionals. It...
Three Secrets to Manage Your Emotions Through the Divorce Process.
Getting divorced is difficult for everyone involved. The hopes, dreams, and plans that have been made are now shifted; the future may feel unknown. The uncertainty can include but is certainly not limited to finances, children, family relationships, mental health,...