I’ll be on air again this Thursday to answer your questions about the collaborative process, in general, and collaborative divorce, in particular. I’m pretty excited to be back on with Jamie Meloni! That’s always a fun time! Tune into “That Business Show” weekdays at 8:00 am on WHNZ 1250 to hear about Tampa Bay’s most impacting […]
How many of us lawyers can afford our own services? My husband and I retained a Miami lawyer over a dozen years ago, at the stunning hourly rate of $600. To this day, that amount still outrages me. I went to Yale University when I was 16 years old, graduated when I was 19, and
You know, I get that question a lot from friends and other professionals who refer me clients but who don’t want to worry their own happily-married spouses. They’ll ask “If I walk in the door with a book about divorce, what’s my wife going to think?” Or they’ll worry, “I’m happily married; what will my
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
It is the objective of every practice group to build the awareness, acceptance, and use of collaborative services generally, and their own group’s efficacy, in particular. What if we had an outside advisory board or focus group comprised of representatives from various community organizations and resources to assist us in getting the message out, providing
Traditional divorce processes are destroying the fabric of American society. Yet another tragic news story that didn’t need to happen: On December 4, 2013, a doctor attending mediation in Manchester, Tenn., was gunned down by his estranged wife in front of his lawyer’s office. Dr. Harry Bartee, 47, was shot multiple times by Brenda Bartee
I have always been a trial lawyer. (Well, since law school anyway!) And I am, among other things, a family lawyer. So, in the old days, I offered free divorces because it was an easy way for me to give back. But after I spent a couple of years volunteering like this, I became dis-enamored with the
