Your collaborative family lawyer will advise you of the law.
Your collaborative family lawyer will represent your interests, but will also listen to your ex-partner’s
interests.
The other
collaborative family lawyer will represent your ex-partner’s interests, but
will also listen to you.
Both collaborative family lawyers will facilitate the collaborative meetings.
Both collaborative family lawyers will cooperate in sharing all relevant information.
Both collaborative family lawyers will manage emotional situations, and where necessary will suggest
other collaborative practitioners (e.g., counsellors and psychologists) become involved
in the collaborative process. Where counsellors and psychologists are involved,
those practitioners are also trained in the collaborative family law model
and understand how collaborative divorce works.
Both collaborative family lawyers will point out unreasonable expectations.
Both collaborative family lawyers will work hard to help you and you both reach an agreement that is
in the best interest of the children and promotes shared and cooperative parenting
and produces a fair and equitable result in property settlements.
Once you
reach an agreement, both collaborative family lawyers will help you to obtain any
necessary court approval (e.g., parenting plan or parenting order by consent).