As an experienced Collaborative Attorney, I understand the importance of guiding families through emotionally challenging transitions with care, empathy, and expertise. My role is to help clients navigate one of the most significant life changes—divorce—while minimizing conflict, promoting communication, and fostering cooperation. It’s equally important to identify, communicate and focus on values during this process. Identifying, communicating and being true to your values is essential to successfully navigating the collaborative divorce process.
Collaborative law and family practice require a distinct approach. Unlike traditional litigation, which often emphasizes winning at all costs, the Collaborative Process prioritizes resolution, healing, and the well-being of the entire family. All of this is based on values and a deep understanding of the collaborative process itself.
As an experienced collaborative attorney, I know how to keep values at the heart of our work. Instead of using aggressive tactics that may alienate your spouse, I can guide you in creating compassionate and client-centered negotiations that speaks to your values in seeking a healthier alternative to divorce.
My work as a Collaborative attorney is mission-driven, focusing on the well-being of families. My knowledgeable of the collaborative process can help ensure your divorce aligns with your values and this mission.
At the core of collaborative practice is empathy—both in working with my clients and within the professional teams. As an experienced collaborative attorney, I can help you build that same level of empathy into your divorce negotiations. Clients facing divorce are often overwhelmed with stress and uncertainty. As an experienced collaborative attorney I understand this and can guide you in creating negotiation strategies that meet you where you and your spouse are emotionally, and support you throughout the process, ensuring the process remains ethical, authentic and trustworthy.
Instead of focusing solely on the legal aspects of collaborative divorce, I can also offer emotional understanding and support, such as like how to talk to your children about divorce or how to manage finances during a transition.
Collaborative divorce allows you to be your highest and best self during the stress of divorce. You learn how to work together with your spouse, not fight against each other. You learn how to keep your children at the forefront, but not in the middle of your divorce. You learn to understand the importance of your children feeling safe and secure to love both parents. And you learn that respectful coparenting with effective communication skills can avoid the common mistakes that can scar children.
Collaborative divorce utilizes a team approach to the divorce process. Collaborative divorce professional teams can include a Neutral Child Specialist, or Coach; a Neutral Financial Specialist, or Facilitator; and two Collaborative Attorneys. The child specialist, helps you reach an agreement on raising your children, develop parenting plans and understand how your actions during the divorce impact your children.
As an experienced collaborative attorney, I represent the best interests of my client and the family as a whole. I will work with the other collaborative attorney and the collaborative team to resolve issues, employing effective communication skills and maintaining the highest standard of integrity, while remaining respectful, and maintaining an atmosphere of honest, cooperative professionalism.
One of the most critical skills a collaborative attorney can bring to the process is empathy. The collaborative process is built on principles of empathy, cooperation, and client-centered values. As an experienced collaborative attorney, I bring these core principles to the process and can help you incorporate them into effective negotiations that and align with your values, and your mission, and build trust, and cooperation.
Traditional negotiating techniques often feel impersonal or overly aggressive. As an experienced collaborative attorney, I can help you create trust and maintain integrity throughout the collaborative divorce process.
Using an experienced collaborative attorney who understands you and the collaborative process can ensure that your divorce reflects your values, remains authentic, and respects and preserves your relationships with those you hold dear. In doing so, you move to the next stage of your life without discarding those relationships.
The benefits of collaborative divorce continue even after the divorce is concluded. You emerge from the collaborative divorce process with agreements in place that you created together with your spouse. This sets the foundation for how you move forward with your new family structure. You established expectations, and if, in the future, you run into unforeseen issues or new problems, you have the resources to address those issues. You can communicate with each other because you’ve established a foundation and ground rules for how to have productive co-parenting communication and how to maintain a respectful relationship in a new format. Many exes go on to have a positive relationship with each other. At a minimum, you can be in the same room together, and be part of future family celebrations.
My expertise can help you achieve the best results for you and your family. For more information contact me at 203-544-9945 or beth@eedwardslaw.com
