Through specially trained practitioners and a different process, collaborative law affords divorcing couples the privacy of not being in court and having their dispute spread across the public docket, the opportunity to maintain relationships with in-laws and extended family members and the ability to control every aspect of the outcome. The basic collaborative law training, available through the Collaborative Law Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania (CLASP), is a subject worthy of an article by itself.
This article will discuss the process by which collaborative family lawyers achieve forward-looking results for clients interested in taking greater control over their fates, as well as four of the primary ways in which the use of collaborative law impacts the divorce process in a positive way.
