What is Interdisciplinary Collaborative Family Law?

In traditional divorce proceedings, both sides may hire their own set of professionals to bolster their cases, which can become costly and may increase the conflicts rather than resolve them.

The Collaborative Law process recognizes the need for allied professionals, but favors the use of one interdisciplinary team, whose goal is to work together to help a couple divorce in the most practical, efficient and peaceful manner. Therefore, the team's focus is the process of collaboration, rather than taking the side of one party or the other.

Collaborative Law professionals recognize that no one person has all of the necessary expertise it requires to help couples make healthy and informed decisions about divorce. Using a collaborative team insures that divorcing couples get the expertise they need in the most efficient and economical way possible.
 

Collaborative Family Law uses attorneys, mental health professionals, and financial consultants to solve family disputes without adversarial techniques or tactics. It is based on principles of being proactive and seeking to first understand, and then to be understood.  It uses a cooperative model of negotiation and neutral experts, as needed, to resolve conflict.