The Benefits - Collaborative Divorce BC
The benefits of collaboration to the future of the separating couple and their children are that it:
- Creates a cooperative environment where needs and interests can be heard and met
- Addresses and emphasizes the needs and well-being of the children
- Employs problem-solving techniques that foster efficient resolution of issues
- Allows couples to retain control of the separation process and a measure of privacy
- Provides the flexibility to craft an agreement together, build confidence and come to consensus around the agreement
- Contains legal costs
- Offers the only model that provides a structure for both emotional support and legal guidance
- Requires timely disclosure of relevant financial information that makes the collaborative process efficient
- Helps preserve respectful relationships followings separation and divorce
- Helps the newly configured family begin new lives in a more hopeful and healthy way