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Collaborative Divorce
Bad Marriage; Good Divorce
A divorce doesn’t necessarily mean that you and your significant other become enemies. After all, you once loved this person enough to marry him or ...
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Business Sense
What to Do When the Collaborative Process Breaks Down
There may come a time in a collaborative matter when a spouse becomes disillusioned with the process and decides that he wants to try litigation. ...
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Collaborative Divorce
The Collaborative Process
As soon as both clients have chosen their collaborative process attorneys, if you have not yet, reach out to your co-collaborative counsel (that would be ...
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OPL Blog
Reasons to Test Drive the Cow: Cohabitation Before Marriage
There’s an old saying: “Why buy the cow when the milk is free?” This idiom is usually used to refer to men who don’t want ...
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Business Sense
Do You Write Chatty or Formal Agreements?
If you’re a lawyer, you probably tend to write more formal marital settlement agreements and parenting plans, especially if you’ve created templates for those documents. ...
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Collaborative Divorce
The Paradigm Shift
Families don’t belong in the courtroom! How can it be that one buys a license to create a family but must sue one’s spouse to ...
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Divorce Advice
Sideswiped
The following “story” is not make-believe. I only cut-and-pasted a series of e-mails I received late last year from a former divorce client. I’ve added ...
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Business Sense
Three Best Practices When Drafting a Marital Settlement Agreement
Your language should be clear; it should avoid confusion and contradiction. If your language is open to interpretation, you had better believe that one party ...
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Business Sense
The Four Biggest Challenges in Negotiating a Marital Settlement Agreement
Negotiating and drafting a marital settlement agreement can be a difficult task. When discussing and crafting such an agreement, there are four big challenges. For ...
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