We are often approached by clients worried about going through a difficult divorce process. Sometimes they have previous unpleasant personal experience, or know people who have. Naturally an acrimonious divorce is a worrying prospect for anyone. That’s where Collaborative Law can help.
Why is Collaborative Law so different?
The Collaborative Law process is fundamentally changing how people think about family law For couples genuinely seeking a fair solution and wanting to minimise the pain of marriage breakdown, it may offer the best way ahead.
Putting both parties in control of the process
With Collaborative Law, both parties can:
- Control the process
- Set the agenda and timescale themselves
- Deal with issues they feel are important in the order they decide
Both parties attend a series of meetings with their lawyers present, taking a “team effort” approach to resolving any issues.
How Participation Agreements work
Both clients sign a Participation Agreement which recites, amongst other things, that they:
- Intend to deal with each other in an amicable and respectful manner
- Will work together to try and resolve their differences for the benefit of themselves and their children
- Will agree to exclude any contested Court intervention
If negotiations break down both parties have to instruct new lawyers to continue with their case - a further incentive to stay in this process.
Interested in Collaborative Law?
- Do you feel Collaborative Law may be useful in your particular case?
- Could you and your partner sit down together in these types of meetings?
If so, please contact us for further information.
Getting in touch
For more information on our Collaborative Law service, please call Ann Barker on 01295 204148 or email abarker@se-law.co.uk.
There is more information about the North Oxfordshire Collaborative Family Lawyers group at their website
www.collaborativefamilylaw-oxfordshire.co.uk