Family Law Blog
Don’t Destroy Your Family; Transform It The Collaborative Way!
So you want a divorce. You are tired of living in an unhappy marriage in which the bad times far outnumber the good times. You’ve ...
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Better Water: Looking At Marriage With A Positive Attitude
My husband and I talked about “down-sizing” yesterday, on the long drive back from South Beach, where we had celebrated my 62nd birthday with family. ...
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Bad Marriage; Good Divorce
A divorce doesn’t necessarily mean that you and your significant other become enemies. After all, you once loved this person enough to marry him or ...
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The Collaborative Process
As soon as both clients have chosen their collaborative process attorneys, if you have not yet, reach out to your co-collaborative counsel (that would be ...
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Reasons to Test Drive the Cow: Cohabitation Before Marriage
There’s an old saying: “Why buy the cow when the milk is free?” This idiom is usually used to refer to men who don’t want ...
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The Paradigm Shift
Families don’t belong in the courtroom! How can it be that one buys a license to create a family but must sue one’s spouse to ...
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Sideswiped
The following “story” is not make-believe. I only cut-and-pasted a series of e-mails I received late last year from a former divorce client. I’ve added ...
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Is Collaborative Ever Appropriate When a Client Has Borderline Personality Disorder?
Is Collaborative Ever Appropriate When a Client Has Borderline Personality Disorder? Colette didn’t trust anyone. She needed to be in control. She feared abandonment. She ...
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Collateral Damage
When I married my husband, he had already been married once before to someone else . . . and divorced. Early on, I remember him ...
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