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Collaborative law takes a foothold in Florida.
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Arguing couples spending fortunes in legal fees. Spouses using their children as bargaining tools. Weeks dragging into months as husband and wife fight over assets and belongings gathered during the happy years of their marriage. Ask any family lawyer and he or she will tell you this can be a common divorce scenario. But now, some Florida family attorneys are taking matters in a different direction – a non-adversarial one. Family lawyers in several circuits are promising their clients to stay out of court, making the entire process better for the attorneys, the court system, the clients, and, most importantly, any children involved. Both collaborative law and cooperative divorce are spreading rapidly across the state as more and more attorneys tout the merits of these non-adversarial methods’ and more and more clients learn the benefits of working together to stay out of court. Collaborative Law Created by Minneapolis solo Stuart Webb 10 years ago to remedy his dissatisfaction with adversarial family law, the collaborative law model emphasizes positive negotiation to stay out of court. Both parties and their lawyers agree, typically in a written contract, to negotiate a settlement out of court. If the parties. can’t reach an agreement, the lawyers for both sides must withdraw, and the parties have to hire new lawyers to litigate the case. With the threat of court removed, divorcing couples and their lawyers have an incentive to cooperate and settle the matter as quickly and fairly as possible. And, unlike divorce mediation, both parties have the assistance of an… Source : accessmylibrary.com |
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