COLLABORATION: Best Practices For FEAs

COLLABORATION: Best Practices For FEAs

Pulling together in the same direction by engaging the intuitive principles and effective protocols of the consensual collaborative process, FEAs and family enterprises can bring to the surface shared values, reignite channels of communication, and rebuild withering trust entwining and across family and business relationships.

COLLABORATION: Sharing Insights

COLLABORATION: Sharing Insights

Here is a selection of my social media posts receiving the most attention. They represent practical aspects of collaboration, leadership thoughts, and ahead of the curve ideas. Enjoy the read! Is anyone listening to me? “Who sits next to whom and who will they be facing?”

COLLABORATION: An Important Paradigm Shift For FEAs

COLLABORATION: An Important Paradigm Shift For FEAs

Collaboration builds durable reliable family relationships and offers a consensual roadmap to dispute resolution. My role as a Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA) Family Advocate is to coach advisors and support families to attain the wisdom and best practices of collaboration to produce sustainable valued outcomes for individuals and multigenerational business families.

A Child’s Views and Preferences

A Child’s Views and Preferences

Voice of the Child Reports (VCR) Separating parents may have initiated a court process, family arbitration, or find themselves at a crossroads during negotiation of a separation agreement. What decisions they may jointly make or have granted the authority to a third party decision-maker to make on their behalf during those proceedings may be socially,
Family Quarantine #WinSpiration Part II

Family Quarantine #WinSpiration Part II

In Part 1 of #WinSpiration we offered new habits developed and practiced by separating parents in quarantine under local government’s precautions to keep its citizens safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Here are more WinSpiration lifestyle practices to help parents and spouses balance support their loved ones while they manage maintaining the security, emotional health and
Family Quarantine #WinSpiration Part I

Family Quarantine #WinSpiration Part I

I have been regularly checking in with clients to understand how they are facing this period of quarantine with their families during an agreed separation. Here are the most inspiring new habits these parents and spouses have instituted over the last few months to bring stability, confidence, and maintain important emotional bonds with their children
A Lawyer is Drafting Your Separation Agreement?

A Lawyer is Drafting Your Separation Agreement?

Online kits to help you complete your separation agreement with checkboxes may look like they solve all your problems: they are readily available, fully customizable, and easy to skip over the language you don’t understand. The old adage ‘you get what you pay for’ aptly applies. You won’t recognize conflicting provisions or out of date
Collaborative Separation Agreements: Pros + Cons

Collaborative Separation Agreements: Pros + Cons

How you proceed forward once the decision to separate has been taken by one spouse requires some consideration. The values, work ethics, and best practices of the lawyer you retain are just as important as the forum in which you proceed. It is also important that you and your lawyer see eye to eye on
Separation Agreements: Choosing your Lawyer and Your Approach 

Separation Agreements: Choosing your Lawyer and Your Approach 

Being ready to decide and choosing to separate is difficult and emotional. Readiness means you have accepted that your relationship is no longer viable and can’t be ‘fixed’. You are self-aware of how that emotional roller-coaster can hijack logical thinking and you’ve taken steps to manage your grief and start the process of addressing your
Why Ask a Family Law Lawyer for Advice?

Why Ask a Family Law Lawyer for Advice?

Transitions in our personal lives signal a new journey tumbling with emotion, stress, and at times overwhelming our daily lives. Families aren’t predictable. Alliances are dynamic and change over time. Emotional responses interrupt our brain’s natural ability to think clearly, analyze data, and make plans appropriate to the situation. Some of that emotional stress interrupts