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November 9, 2011

Garage Sale Litigation (from Brenda Lee Roberts’ Blog)

A few weeks ago, we highlighted one of our favorite Collaborative Law Institute of Texas blog writers, Dick Price. There’s another excellent blog writer in our community — Dallas-based collaborative consultant, parent facilitator and mental health professional Brenda Lee Roberts, who wrote a particularly insightful article.
The article, “Garage Sale Litigation,” looks at a garage [...]

October 27, 2011

The New Divorce Demand: “You Keep the House”

This blog article is from Jeffrey B. Thomas, J.D./CIMA®/CDFA®, a Dallas-based Certified Private Wealth Advisor and Financial Advisor with Raymond James Financial Services, Inc.

“Getting the house” – once the most coveted prize of a divorcing couple – has become a recession-era issue for divorcing couples.
Excess loan to fair market value challenges, insurance costs, reduced liquidity, [...]

October 24, 2011

Mexico’s Short-Term Marriage: More Like Our Pre-Nuptial Agreement Than You Might Think

Christopher Michael Farish is a collaboratively trained family law attorney who works as an associate at the firm of Quaid & Quaid, LLC. Chris is a past three-term president of the Collaborative Professionals of Dallas, the President of the Collin County Young Lawyers Association, and has served on special committees for CLI-TX and IACP.
Some of [...]

September 6, 2011

Retirement Dreams, or Retirement Nightmares?

This article is from Tracy Stewart, a financial professional based in College Station specializing in collaborative divorce, and a Collaborative Law Institute of Texas board member, whose credentials include CPA/PFS/CFF, CFP and CDFA.
“I’ve never seen it all on one page before.” Those were the words of my client in his second collaborative divorce meeting. He [...]

May 23, 2011

Arnold, Maria, and Collaborative Divorce

The recent news about divorce proceedings starting up between one of America’s most famous couples – Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver – now includes input from Collaborative Law Institute of Texas board member Tracy Stewart, who was quoted in this CNNMoney article which ran this past Friday:
The story focused on Schwarzenegger’s wealth – tied, [...]

May 3, 2011

Why Collaborative Law Agreements are Better than Cookie-Cutter Orders

This blog post is from Natalie Gregg, a family law mediator and a collaboratively trained attorney, who focuses her practice on helping families transition through difficult times. Her philosophy is to provide dignity to her clients through helping parents and spouses protect their interests, while creatively facilitating the division of estates and the designing of [...]

April 28, 2011

Why It’s Important to Have the Right Business Valuation Expert in a Collaborative Divorce

This blog post is from Elizabeth Ann Schrupp, CPA/ABV/CFF, CVA, a collaboratively trained financial professional. She has been providing business valuation and forensic accounting services for attorneys for the past 22 years.
I was talking with some collaborative law professionals the other day, when it was brought to my attention that they had used a [...]

April 12, 2011

The Impact of Divorce on Taxes and Tax Issues

This blog post is from David Droppo, a collaboratively trained financial advisor with Ameriprise Financial in Dallas, Texas. He is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst™and a Certified Financial Planner™.
This is the one week out of the year in which, for many of us, taxes loom largest. For couples in the divorce process, tax issues can [...]

January 19, 2011

Reconciliation Through Collaborative Law

This blog post is from Michael A Hiller, board certified family lawyer, Texas board of legal specialization with Hiller & Assoc., P.C., a full-service family law firm serving the Houston metroplex, including Harris, Ft. Bend and Montgomery counties.
Can collaborative law help me reconcile with my partner?
It can give you a chance. Collaborative Law gives you [...]

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 [...]

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