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Collaborative law seeks to defuse adversarial nature of dispute.
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Q. My wife and I have been “tolerating” each other in the same house for more than 25 years. Although we knew the marriage was on the rocks after our third child, we decided to wait until all the children were educated and out of the house. That day has come and gone, but we still occupy separate bedrooms, and although we talk of divorce, the more we read and hear, the less inclined we are to give a bunch of blood-thirsty lawyers a shot at making us more miserable and less financially stable. We have gone to a financial planner and mediator on our own, without success. I am 54 and she is 52. We each have quite a few good years left, and although we don’t… Source : accessmylibrary.co |
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