Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR): Collaborative Law

Collaborative Law: A New Model for Dispute Resolution is the most comprehensive book available on this innovative process. Created for attorneys and professionals who want to learn more about this alternative method of resolving disputes, it is filled with practical information that will enhance your understanding and give you the tools you need to successfully implement the collaborative law process in your business. Book jacket.

Outlines a strategic method for divorced parents on how to divide assets, conduct post-divorce relationships, and share custody while protecting the needs of their children, counseling readers on how to hire legal representation while avoiding court and expensive litigation processes. 30,000 first printing.

Collaborative law is a powerful dispute resolution model. Spouses are represented by counsel that assists in bringing them through divorce with integrity and satisfaction. A binding stipulation disqualifies both counsels if either party threatens or elects to go to court. This book explains the goals, concepts and techniques of collaborative law.

Thanks to highprofile celebrity separations, TV talk shows and the personal experience of many, divorce means battle, plain and simple. But does it have to be a bloodletting that ends up in court? Not if a couple chooses mediation.Mediation is the quick, fair and low stress way to resolve all kinds of disputes, including divorce. It takes place in a quiet room without a judge or a jury and leaves the final decision to the parties involved, not a fleetfooted lawyer. Consequently, more and more divorcing couples are choosing to mediate rather than step inside the contentious courtroom. Attorney Mediator Katherine Stoner sheds light on the role of mediation in divorce and then explains how to:find a mediatorprepare for mediationanticipate what will happen in mediationconduct oneself in the mediationget an agreement in writingfind and use legal and other types of advisorsresearch state divorce laws. Keeping divorce out of court not only saves people money and time, it lessens the impact of the separation on children and other family members involved. (Who ever heard of a bloody mediation?) With Stoner’s encouraging, straightforward book in hand, couples have the antidote to frayed nerves, miserable families and protracted battles includes reams of worksheets and checklists.