Hello

The Lafayette Professionals have the following bullet points to best describe our vision for collaborative divorce:

• Resolution focused, child focused, interests analysis, makes things easier

• Helping people find out what they want

• Partners who don’t handle finances can get up to speed with a financial advisor and mental health professional

• We’ll work to compile fees sheet and present to law institute

• Likely to encourage pre-divorce counselor use, including allowing parents to have MHPs who help identify that divorce is coming, which allows them to get their kids to a counselor to talk/treat and best maintain relationships with both parents

• Psych and law connect

• Allows parents to learn to parent together based on the plan they create together

• Gives parent opportunity to be on same page as other parent without adversarial arena

• Allows professionals to educate clients where courts don’t have time or opportunity to do so

• Reduce LONG TERM costs for families

• Removing attorneys who are damaging for children

• Helps open lines of communication between professionals, esp. as simple as a phone call, to the LONG TERM benefit of the client and reduction of costs.

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