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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

January 12, 2010

Can a Lawyer Wear Two Hats?

Filed under: Divorce Options

In litigation, there is always a tension between trial and settlement. One of the biggest strategy challenges a lawyer faces in the litigation process is trying to be a diplomat and a battle leader at the same time. Essentially, it’s trying to balance a diplomat’s hat and a war general’s hat on the attorney’s [...]

December 18, 2009

What Collaborative Law is Not: It’s Not Mediation or Arbitration

Filed under: Divorce Options

Collaborative Law is different from mediation and arbitration in many ways.

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