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The Collaborative Law Institute of Texas is proud to announce that it’s establishing the Gay G. Cox Collaborative Law Award to honor the memory of the Dallas lawyer. The first recipient of the annual award will be announced at the State Bar of Texas’ Advanced Family Law Conference in August, and CLI-TX has recently put [...]
Many collaborative lawyers in Texas also take on litigation cases. Some clients prefer a collaborative approach, but find themselves in situations where their spouses won’t participate in the collaborative process. In those cases, collaboratively-trained lawyers will participate in litigation, being principled advocates for their clients — yet looking for opportunities to resolve issues outside of [...]
We’re happy to see newspaper articles detailing the advantages of collaborative divorce, and we’re even more happy to see the growing number of advocates for collaborative divorce across the nation, building on the groundbreaking work we’ve done here in Texas to establish collaborative divorce as an alternative to traditional courtroom divorce. This USA Today article [...]
One of the most important facets of the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas’ mission is to educate the public on the benefits of collaborative law, for those weighing the difficult decision to divorce. With that in mind, we’ve been working over the past few months to develop a new series of statements, looking for the [...]
Today is opening day for the 2013 Texas Legislature — Texas is, of course, one of only a few states in the Union that convenes its chambers once every two years, rather than annually. The usual debates about budget, education, and taxes are on the table for the Senators and Representatives elected two months prior. [...]
There’s a new avenue being proposed for Texans to get divorces — a so-called “do-it-yourself” divorce form that the Texas Supreme Court recently signed off on. Once finalized, it would allow couples without children or shared property to work out their own divorces through filing specific forms, without turning to legal counsel. These aren’t, of [...]