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Collaborative Practice

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Collaborative practice is a method of resolving family law matters using a structured negotiation setting, without going to court. In collaborative practice, which is also known as collaborative divorce or collaborative law, each party is represented by his or her own lawyer. Both parties and both lawyers, often also with divorce coaches or other professionals, meet together to develop information, identify interests and goals, and formulate solutions to the problems presented.

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Collaborative practice is:

  • Voluntary. Participation in collaborative practice is completely voluntary. No court, no judge, and no law can require anyone to select collaboration.

  • Confidential. The parties, attorneys, and other professionals participating in a collaborative case sign a formal agreement to hold all communications and documents entirely confidential, so that nothing that transpires in the collaborative process can be used in any legal proceeding. Courts will enforce these confidentiality agreements.

  • Non-adversarial. Collaborative practice is a serious, good-faith effort to find productive, useful solutions to family law issues. While disagreements and differing viewpoints are expected, hostility, attack, belligerence, and bad faith are unacceptable.

  • Open and transparent. Parties in collaboration voluntarily provide all information and documentation needed to address the issues at hand. Nothing is hidden or concealed. All negotiations are in the open. Attorneys do not negotiate out of the parties’ presence.

  • Interest and goal based. Parties, with the assistance of attorneys and divorce coaches, identify their interests and goals, both personal and financial, so that, working together, the collaborative team (parties, attorneys, and coaches) can develop solutions that address those goals and interests.

Is Collaborative Law right for you?

Divorce, parenting disputes and other family matters are intensely personal and sensitive. No single approach is right for everyone. Many divorcing couples, unwed parents of children and others involved in family disputes often find the no-court process known as Collaborative Law a welcome alternative to the often destructive and damaging aspects of resolving disputes or marital breakups through the traditional model of contested litigation. If these values are important to you, Collaborative Practice is likely to be a workable option for you:

  • I want to maintain respect for my spouse or partner, even when we disagree.

  • I want to place the needs of our children as a first priority despite our differences as parents.

  • I will listen objectively to the needs and concerns of my spouse or partner and believe that we deserve equal consideration.

  • I believe that working creatively and cooperatively solves problems.

  • I am committed to looking beyond today's frustration and emotional pain so we can each plan for the future.

  • I can behave ethically toward my spouse or partner in the process.

  • I want to maintain control over the process of our divorce or family dispute and avoid resort to the Court process that takes time, is destructive and often costs considerably more than the Collaborative model.

If this method of resolving differences and solving problems sounds beneficial to you and your family set up an appointment and free consultation with Attorney Garner to discuss how best to move forward.

One couple's story

Follow the true story of one couple as they proceed through their own Collaborative Divorce. "A Safe Place," is a video about an active divorce which focuses on the advantages of the collaborative process:

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If you are considering divorce or are facing other difficult family law disputes involving parenting, support or other unresolved issues please call (603) 882-8008 or contact chris@attorneygarner.com to schedule an appointment today to learn more about how we may be able to help you. Nashua, New Hampshire and statewide collaborative divorce and family legal services providing advice and representation for all collaborative divorce, parenting, parental rights and responsibilities, paternity, custody, visitation, alimony, child support, property settlement, modification of orders, prenuptial agreements, relocation cases, grandparents rights and more. Collaborative practice designed to respectfully redefine relationships without going to Court.

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