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August 30, 2010

Texas Collaborative Law in the Wall Street Journal

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 [...]

August 27, 2010

Child Support in a Collaborative Divorce (Part Two)

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 [...]

August 20, 2010

Collaborative Professionals Exchange Practice Strategies in San Antonio

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, [...]

August 6, 2010

Child Support in a Collaborative Divorce

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, and a Collaborative Law Institute of Texas Board Member. He has been in the financial advising business since the early 1990s and has specialized in the divorce financial aspects for the [...]

July 28, 2010

New Concerns Regarding Health Insurance Coverage

Filed under: Divorce and Finance

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 [...]

July 15, 2010

Why Collaborative Law Works in Small and Medium-Sized Towns

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 [...]

July 6, 2010

A Red-Letter Day for Collaborative Law

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 [...]

June 25, 2010

How Collaborative Divorce Can Place Those Divorcing Later in Life in Charge

One of the features of a collaborative divorce is that you and your spouse tailor an agreement to fit your situation. When spouses cannot agree, judges have limits on which facts they can consider and what they can order after a trial. The following are examples of judicial limitations and how they may be significant [...]

June 11, 2010

A Real Life Collaborative Law Success Story

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 [...]

May 21, 2010

State Bar of Texas Creates a Collaborative Law Section

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 [...]

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