With the help of a full collaborative team, the parties in a divorce can organically arrive at the best solutions to meet their needs. Alternative dispute resolution options are growing in popularity ...

Parties unfamiliar with the legal system shudder at the thought of seeing their life in its most personal context, displayed on a witness stand before a judge and a courtroom full of peering ...

It’s a common scenario: You don’t want a court to determine your family’s affairs, but you do want a structure in place to ensure you (and your children) get a fair outcome. You have options and one ...

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South Florida is famously litigious, but a new family law firm in the region aims to use a recently established form of alternative dispute resolution to resolve family matters outside the courtroom.

A group of Panhandle lawyers has started a nonprofit that aims to reduce the cost and emotional turmoil of divorces. West Florida Collaborative Law has only been in existence for a few months, but ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has made the backlog of family court worse, with some jurisdictions being shut down completely for months. Many divorcing couples rely on the courts to settle disputes without ...

A lot of people contemplating the end of their marriage think there’s only one way to go about it: in a messy, scorched-earth, expensive divorce. If the divorcing couple is very wealthy and co-owns ...