April 24, 2026
Collaborative practice has existed in Wisconsin for over 25 years. If your goal in pursuing a divorce is to make your partner pay, you will find attorneys and other that will pursue that goal for you. Collaborative professionals are focused on solutions. And that is the difference.
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July 4, 2025
Not long ago we received an inquiry from a person seeking information about divorce and collaborative law. She had contacted an attorney and while asking about her options, the response, among other things, included the statement “sure, we do collaborative”….
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June 1, 2025
Recently we encountered this statement on a law firm website:“While …[trained]… in Collaborative Divorce ..[we use] this approach only when requested, and we caution…not all cases benefit from this [approach].”. The responsibility of any professional to a client is to explain…
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December 15, 2021
Separation and divorce are often stressful for parents, and learning how to adjust to new routines and traditions can be especially challenging. Further, parents commonly struggle to figure out how to share their children’s time between households……….
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May 15, 2021
A common question that arrives in the mailbox of this website is “how much does collaborative cost?” It is likely that the writer of the email presumes that, as an alternative to the traditional litigation process, collaborative has to be less expensive. Few things are that definitive and the answer we routinely provide is “it depends.”-News Editor
Read More April 15, 2021
Search for “emotional aspects of divorce’ on the latest edition of the world’s encyclopedia – Google – and you will quickly see about 152 million results.
Yet it is fair to suggest that most people consider divorce to be primarily a legal “thing.” -News Editor
February 15, 2021
A recent survey regarding attitudes regarding taxes and tax preparation revealed that a majority of households – 56% actually – relied upon another person or firm to prepare their taxes. This is not surprising given how few of us want to deal with the US Tax Code, a document now consisting of over 73,900 pages according to a national tax reporting service.
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January 15, 2021
In this extraordinary time of social distancing – of relatively short duration, we hope – it may seem out of place to discuss the place many people exchange information about their lives. -News Editor
Neighbors have chatted over the back fence for decades about everything from life and death, taxes and politics, religion and families, and of course, divorce. (Social media may have replaced some of that interaction, but not all.)
Read More June 1, 2020
Like all good ideas, and other approaches to problem solving, the collaborative process continues to evolve as well.
A recent twist to the process has emerged in Wisconsin. Some professionals refer to it as the “facilitative” model, others prefer to call it the “enhanced one coach” model, and still others have developed their own unique descriptions.
Read More May 28, 2020
As discussed in previous months, the “divortex” can be avoided by choosing the Collaborative Process. Prior articles describe what Collaboration is – it is a process that avoids court and may use a team of experts to help clients create the best settlement option possible. -Part Three
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