Collaborative Law - Divorce Without Litigation

All divorces involve decisions and choices such as which financial/legal and/or medical professionals to use and how to utilise their help. These decisions can powerfully affect whether a divorce moves forward smoothly or not. Some couples resolve all their divorce issues without any professional assistance whatsoever. More frequently, some couples engage in drawn out courtroom battles, which drains the family’s emotional and financial resources, are destructive to relationships and can take considerable time to complete. Most people find that their needs fall between these two extremes.

These decisions can powerfully affect whether a divorce moves forward smoothly or not.

Everyone is familiar with the usual process of obtaining a divorce through the Court system, using traditional litigation techniques such as tactical bargaining. However, a new concept recently introduced in Ireland, which is well established in America and recently established in Britain, is collaborative law;