What is Collaborative Practice?

Collaborative law, also known as collaborative practice. Collaborative practice has now established itself as a prominent means of resolving family law disputes.nnThe core element of collaborative practice is that lawyers and their clients will not threaten to resort to or engage in litigation during the period of their collaborative negotiations and all negotiations are to take place outside the Court system.nnAg a result of Stuart Webb's endeavors the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals was formed and includes membership of family law practitioners, psychologists, communications professionals, financial planners, and accountants.

What is Collaborative Practice?

Collaborative law, also known as collaborative practice. Collaborative practice has now established itself as a prominent means of resolving family law disputes.nnThe core element of collaborative practice is that lawyers and their clients will not threaten to resort to or engage in litigation during the period of their collaborative negotiations and all negotiations are to take place outside the Court system.nnAg a result of Stuart Webb's endeavors the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals was formed and includes membership of family law practitioners, psychologists, communications professionals, financial planners, and accountants.

What Collaborative Professionals are trained for?

nMore often than not other collaboratively trained professionals are involved in the collaborative process. The collaborative law teams involve the two collaborative lawyers, a communication professional (a family and child psychologist) and a financial neutral (a financial planner or accountant). These professionals are trained in the collaborative process.nnThe communication professional maintains highly focused communication during the negotiations, endeavours to reduce the stress levels during the meeting and assist the parties in their clarification of the issues involved. They have anger management skills which help the clients move effectively as possible through the collaborative process.

Which Training are required for collaborative professionals?

Collaborative professionals are required to undergo specific and detailed training if they wish to become registered and to practice in the collaborative area. In Queensland, they are registered with Queensland Collaborative Law and must attend regular practice group meetings held on a monthly basis, and undergo continuous training to practice in this area of law.nnCertain collaborative professionals have been trained specifically as trainers to provide the training required for lawyers to become collaborative practitioners. Pauline Tesler, a prominent collaborative practitioner in America came to Australia in the early 2000s to provide the necessary training for collaborative professionals.

What's the legal view of Relationship or Marriage Breakdown

Nearly half of all marriages in Australia end in divorce. A marriage of 7 years in the eyes of the Family Court is a lengthy marriage. The average marriage in Australia is 11 years. The breakdown in de facto and same-sex relationships (although statistics are not readily available) would be in the view of the author greater than the breakdown in marriages.nnDivorced parents, remarriages, blended families, shared custody in one form or another with the potential for parental disagreement and conflict constitute the daily life experience of a large and growing percentage of children growing up in Western cultures today.nnThe divorce passage is far from easy for most people. In many cases, the emotional trauma of a breakdown in a relationship is only second to that of the death of a loved member or spouse. The grief and recovery process resulting from a breakdown in a relationship parallels the stages of recovery from the death of a loved one.

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19 Feb 2017

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Collaborative Law in Australia Since its emergence in 1990, the collaborative practice has been a rapidly growing family law practice throughout America, Canada, Europe, England and now Australia. On 1 January 1990 Stuart Webb, a Family Lawyer in Minneapolis in the United States decided that he would henceforth represent his clients only pursuant to a binding agreement that neither he nor the lawyers for the other party would ever go to Court for their clients. His sole purpose was to...

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