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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 [...]

October 18, 2011

Looking for a Little Privacy (from Texas Collaborative Law Blog)

One of our favorite blogs on collaborative law comes for one of our colleagues, who was instrumental in the launch of the CLI-TX blog back in the day. Dick Price, who writes the Texas Collaborative Law Blog, recently wrote this thought-provoking piece on the importance of privacy in the divorce process for a number of [...]

September 26, 2011

Do This Not That: Five Tips for Respectful Communication

This article is from Carol Mapp, LCSW, an Arlington-based therapist with Integrated Healthworks.
Communication is central to any relationship and co-parenting communication and relationships are no different,. Keep guidelines in mind at your next impasse; they might help you avoid an unproductive argument.
1. Say it in a way that the other person can “hear”: [...]

August 15, 2011

On the Run from School to Home to Home: Back-to-School Advice for Divorced Parents

This article comes from Carol Mapp, LCSW, an Arlington-based therapist with Integrated Healthworks.
In area megastores, the aisles have been filling steadily with flashy, multi-zippered superhero backpacks, packages of hermetically-sealed notebook paper, and television character-inspired lunch boxes since the July 4th holiday. Although blissfully unaware children can still be found in swimming pools, at day [...]

August 11, 2011

Collaborative Law Institute of Texas Presents at Advanced Family Law Conference

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.
This past [...]

July 25, 2011

What If It’s Not Collaborative? (A Presentation Preview)

This post is from Norma Levine Trusch, a Houston-based lawyer and Collaborative Law Institute of Texas Board Member.
Next week, at the Advanced Family Law Course in San Antonio, Don Royall, Harry Tindall and I will be speaking on “Other Non-Adversarial Approaches to Family Law Cases.” The subject arose from a discussion I had [...]

June 28, 2011

Ain’t No Time For the Summertime Blues: A Collaborative Look at the Standard Summer Visitation in Texas

This article comes from Carol Mapp, LCSW, an Arlington-based therapist with Integrated Healthworks.

Most children look forward to the summer break. It is a time for them to dash about in swimsuits and flip-flops after being trapped by the demands of school and schedules the rest of the year. There’s a burst of activities as summer’s [...]

June 24, 2011

Avoiding the Seven Business Casualties of Divorce

We wanted to call your attention to this contribution to the Wealth Management Insider blog from CLI-TX board member Tracy Stewart, discussing the seven business casualties of divorce, and how collaborative law provides a path away from this. Her article looks at this issue with an excellent case study identifying specific impacts on business on [...]

June 20, 2011

Uniform Collaborative Family Law Act Signed by Gov. Perry

Friday marked a historic day for collaborative law in Texas. The earlier unanimous approval of HB 3833 by the Texas State Legislature, establishing expanded provisions for divorces settled through the collaborative law process, was followed up by Gov. Rick Perry’s signature, establishing the Uniform Collaborative Family Law Act as statewide law.
This earlier blog post [...]

May 31, 2011

Collaborative Financial Expert Mike Benaglio Featured on Austin TV

Earlier today, Mike Benaglio, an Austin-based collaborative financial expert with the Benaglio Group, was featured on the Fox 7 morning show in Austin, to talk about dividing assets in a divorce. As noted in one of our most recent blog posts, divorce has been a hot topic in the news recently — which gave Mike [...]

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