How does this legal process work? A collaborative divorce happens if both spouses come to a satisfactory agreement with the help of qualified people. Both parties hire a highly skilled collaborative lawyer who gives legal counsel and help the couple discuss and then settle an arrangement. First, the couples will meet with their lawyers separately and then afterwards the four of them will meet in a regular basis. In this process, other professionals such as child custody specialist or accountants may also be involved. Usually, an arrangement is being signed by the married couple and their lawyers requiring the lawyers to withdraw from the case if an arrangement could not be attained landing the case to court. If this happens you will not be represented by your collaborative divorce lawyers anymore and will need to look for a more adversarial lawyer.
If an arrangement has been decided by the married couple, a family court judge has to be contact afterwards to have the arrangement signed. If an agreement has covered all issues, an uncontested process is not needed and the legal portion of the procedure will become simple because the married couple will not undergo litigious hearings and pretrial examinations like interrogation and exposure. With the collaborative method spouses can trade all needed information willingly, and can save time, money and effort. But most of all, both married party will get through the procedure with an intact dignity and morality.