Divorce Satisfaction: Litigation vs. Collaboration vs. Mediation

Divorce Satisfaction: Litigation vs. Collaboration vs. Mediation

How satisfied are family law or divorce clients using the different processes available to them? Let’s compare client experiences and people's satisfaction under each process within the various family law approaches: the Litigation/family court process, the Collaborative approach to family law, and the Mediation process to family law by considering the available literature & research.
Considering Later Life Divorce

Considering Later Life Divorce

Understanding the emotional response: Overwhelming, emotional, empowering or devastating? Welcoming support means receiving non- judgmental empathy, understanding, and perhaps silence? For those seniors who were not welcoming this newfound single status, you may seek a renewed confidence to be able to find strength in a suddenly new world. Normalizing the event brings calm. Financial recovery:
FACT OR FICTION? FAMILY LAW SEPARATIONS  – Part I

FACT OR FICTION? FAMILY LAW SEPARATIONS – Part I

Clients may convince themselves of the accuracy of the information they receive from a friend at the gym or an erstwhile cousin who has already taken the emotional journey of separation and divorce. Their pronouncements about how child support is calculated or the entitlement thresholds for spousal support may be well-intentioned yet perhaps not exactly
Understanding Child Support – The Basics

Understanding Child Support – The Basics

Parents are familiar with the different categories of costs their children incur at an early age, as a teenager, and as an adult child entering a post-secondary educational program. When the family is intact, the expenses are often paid from a joint account. When a couple separates, who pays the child support, how much, and
Property Division and Fully Disclosure in Family Law Settlements

Property Division and Fully Disclosure in Family Law Settlements

In the family law field, clients are asked and expected to produce documents demonstrating their income from all sources, the property of all sorts and debts and liabilities. The probable value and currency, accuracy and completeness of the disclosure are paramount. Why? For a family law lawyer to be able to provide comprehensive legal advice