Reach a Fair Agreement for Your Family With a Collaborative Divorce

The collaborative approach provides separating or divorcing couples with a team of professionals and experts to guide them through the collaboration process.

Unlike mediation, where a couple typically works with one neutral mediator, the collaborative method includes attorneys, divorce coaches, child specialists and a financial neutral party. In collaborative divorce cases, Empowered Divorce acts as the financial neutral party.

Our goal during the collaborative process is to help the divorcing couple address the needs of each party, including the children, and to help them make decisions that are best for the entire family. The collaborative divorce process is always voluntary and confidential.

Empowered Divorce can provide contact information for skilled attorneys, coaches and child specialists who are trained and experienced in the process of collaborative divorce.

Contact us for an introductory 30-Minute Consultation. Spanish language services available.

Further Reading on Collaborative Divorce

Kinder, Gentler Collaborative Divorce Also Costs Less
Martha Neil, ABA Journal

Fast-track divorce for Madonna?
Frances Gibb, Legal Editor, London Times

Will Collaborative Divorce Work for You? Collaborative divorce helps spouses work things out — without a court fight
Nolo.com

Keen Interest in Gentler Ways to Divorce
David Crary, The Associated Press

McGreeveys: A model of how not to break up
Kathleen O'Brien, New Jersey Voices

Each member of the
collaborative team has a
specific role and provides
specific expertise.

• Divorce Attorneys provide legal counsel and help the parties make decisions that will benefit everyone.
• Coaches help each person separating or divorcing to reconcile his or her emotional issues and fears so that he or she can participate effectively in the decision-making process.
• Child specialists serve as a voice for the children of the family and discuss the effects any separation or divorce decision may have on them.
• Financial neutrals work with the couple to examine assets and make decisions about property settlement, alimony and child support and to advise on the separation agreement or divorce settlement.