Why am I so excited about collaborative divorce? Because it’s a positive thing, a change for the better! Today, when you consult the average attorney about a divorce, the lawyer’s first thought is to get his petition to dissolve the marriage filed before the other spouse does. It’s always a race to the courthouse, because […]
For many of us, New Year’s Day is a fresh start in more ways than one. Most years, there are more divorce petitions filed in January than in any other month. People tend to put off filing at the end of the year because the holidays are stressful enough, and folks see the New Year as
Getting divorced will be easier in 2015 than ever before! The website DivvyMaster.com will release its patented on-line division tools which will greatly simplify collaborative divorce divisions. Most divorced folks can attest to how emotional things can become during the divorce process. These new online tools will combine Emotional Value and Monetary Value approaches in
I received a news flash October 9, 2014, that movie star Paula Patton has taken the plunge (in a bad kind of way) and filed for divorce from her pop-star husband, Robin Thicke. Patton cited “irreconcilable differences,” the usual statutory reason, as the cause. The couple has been married for nine years and has a
I am a divorce lawyer. For years, I was a very successful, family law trial lawyer. So when people ask what I do, I tell them, “I make unhappy people happy; I get them divorced so that they can have another shot at happiness.” I think we can all agree that it’s terrible for everyone
The judicial system is administered by human beings; human beings work in it and on it, and it is therefore permeated with human error and other less admirable human traits. If you imagine that it is fair and impartial and just, and that you can always get the right result if you go to court, then
In every jurisdiction in the United States, divorce must be recognized by a court by virtue of a “final judgment” of some kind in order to be effective. So when I say “courtless,” I mean exactly that; these are processes that involve less court, order rather than more. There is no such thing as a
Christian was adorable. He was blond-haired, and six feet tall, a twenty-eight-year-old firefighter built like Adonis. He came to my office in jeans and a t-shirt, and nice leather sandals. He had just discovered that his erstwhile girlfriend, Jamie, a deputy sheriff, was expecting. He had apparently impregnated her during their failed attempt to patch
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I attended a luncheon recently with a speaker who discussed what exactly constitutes a “collaborative divorce.” I hadn’t realized that the question was open to debate! Did he agree that one could perform a collaborative divorce with just two attorneys, one for each party,so long as the participation agreement specified that the lawyers were out
