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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 [...]
Religious Jews, like Catholics, face a unique problem when divorcing: a civil divorce alone does not release them to remarry. The parties require a release by a properly constituted religious body before they are free to enter into another marital relationship. It has been the conventional wisdom in the past that [...]
Since Collaborative Law came to Texas in 2000, more and more people have heard about it and have used the process to resolve family law matters. As more lawyers, mental health professions and financial professionals have become involved in Collaborative Law, they are telling more and more potential clients about the new option that is [...]
Although Collaborative Law can be considered a breath of fresh air in the legal system, it is still a relatively new process for resolving disputes in Texas. It’s not widely known, but more and more people are learning about it and requesting that it be used. As the public seeks to learn about the process, [...]
Many people think Collaborative Law is useful only in the easy cases where both parties are basically in agreement. They think that spouses or ex-spouses couldn’t sit down together and have civilized negotiations on sensitive child custody or financial issues. Because couples sometimes get into arguments when they discuss emotional issues on their own, some [...]
One of the things we emphasize most in explaining Collaborative Law is that it’s different from the traditional divorce process, which utilizes litigation. Here are some of what we call “process descriptors,” which help establish the difference between litigation and Collaboration.
In litigation:
* Parties in disputes often feel intimidated, fearful, anxious, powerless, out gunned, and not [...]