In family law, collaborative practice is the legal process allowing the participants to work with collaboratively trained professionals to achieve the best outcome for themselves and their children.

Pauline Tesler: Collaborative law is representation by two lawyers who operate within all of the ethical mandates for lawyers in their jurisdictions, and they operate pursuant to a contract that's ...

Collaborative law arrived in the UK in 2003, but the practice was created back in 1990 by Minnesota family lawyer, Stuart Webb, who wanted to design an alternative to traditional litigation methods, ...

Contrary to popular belief, divorce is not always an ugly, highly confrontational affair. According to a Forbes report in 2022, approximately 90 percent of the half million divorces in the United ...

A proposal to codify the collaborative dispute resolution process in Texas civil law is not included in the legislative package approved Sept. 21 by the State Bar of Texas board of directors for ...

Twenty years ago, collaborative family practice arrived in the UK from across the Atlantic and was poised to take the family law sector in England and Wales by storm. Some may say that the storm has ...

When family relationships break down, the impact can extend well beyond personal matters, putting the future of a family enterprise at risk. I recently spoke with Patricia Hebert, a collaborative ...

The end of a marriage is a significant change in a family's life, but it does not have to be the end of effective co-parenting. As a family law attorney certified in collaborative law, my goal is to ...

Mississippi became the 25th state this year to adopt rules of collaborative law, which allows people to sit together at the table to work through their differences in hopes of avoiding what could ...