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For collaborative law practitioners, one of the most rewarding aspects is helping couples with unique and sometimes complicated issues the opportunity to negotiate solutions in unique, innovative ways. One of those couples, Patricia and Mick Twomey, were featured over the weekend in this fantastic Wall Street Journal article by Mary Pilon.
The story wouldn’t have [...]
This post is from Scott Clarke, a Certified Financial Planner and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst currently in private practice in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, who has been in the financial advising business since the early 1990s and has specialized in the divorce financial aspects for the past 6 years, and from from Curtis Harrison, a [...]
This post is from Curtis Harrison, a collaboratively trained family law attorney working for the law firm of Albin | Harrison | Roach in Plano, Texas. He is board certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas.
Last week, [...]
This post is from Tracy Stewart, CPA, PFS, CFF, CFP, CDFA, a College Station and Houston-based financial planner and Collaborative Law Institute of Texas board member.
In many households, health insurance is covered with a policy that is tied to one of the spouses. If the other spouse is a homemaker, or employed where no [...]
This post is from Sally Holt Emerson, an Amarillo-based attorney with the Underwood Law Firm, who has been board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Family Law for 19 years. Among other local, state and national organizations, she is a member of the Board of the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas, the [...]
This post is from Norma Levine Trusch, a Houston-based lawyer and Collaborative Law Institute of Texas Board Member, sharing from experiences from the collaborative law milestone celebrated several weeks ago:
June 11, 2010, was another red-letter day in the history of the collaborative law movement. At 10 a.m. on that day, the first meeting of [...]
Today is a day to celebrate the first meeting of the Collaborative Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, which took place at the State Bar Convention in Fort Worth this morning. Texas was the first state in the nation to pass legislation recognizing Collaborative Law as an alternative means of dispute resolution back [...]
For lawyers across the state, the State Bar of Texas is an important organization. Every lawyer in Texas is a member. The Collaborative Law Institute of Texas has had a strong relationship with the State Bar, which co-sponsors our annual spring conference. That meeting has become an outstanding forum where Collaborative professionals gather to be brought up-to-date [...]