Benefits of Collaborative Law

• It softens the divorce experience.
• It engenders a sense of safety instead of fear.
• It insulates the children from the dispute.
• It generally saves the parties some 50% - 80% in attorney fees.
• It's much quicker. Most people require three to seven 4-way meetings.
• The spouses do not engage in expensive legal proceedings just to obtain financial information from each other.
• Neither spouse is forced to accept a solution that does not meet his or her interests and needs.
• It gives the spouses control of the cost and the outcome of their divorce. Nothing happens until they say yes.
• There is a parity of payment to both lawyers.
• Neither spouse's representation is disadvantaged by lack of funds.
• Less healing time is involved.
• The spouses control the amount of information that becomes part of the public record.

If 90-95% of all cases are settled before they actually go to trial, then shouldn't the attorneys spend much more of their time just flat-out trying to achieve a settlement rather then preparing for a trial that isn't going to happen?.