How Can an Illinois Collaborative Divorce Benefit My Family?
Divorce can be a long, stressful, and tedious process. Collecting paperwork, paying for attorneys, managing child visitation schedules, and waiting until the next available court date is incredibly burdensome. For many couples, a strategy called collaborative divorce can help mitigate the unpleasantness of the divorce process. While it may not entirely rid spouses of the logistical difficulties of getting divorced in Illinois, it does make the process far less contentious and more likely to produce an outcome both parties are satisfied with. To learn more about how collaborative divorce could benefit you and your family, read on.
How Does Collaborative Divorce Work?
The intention of collaborative divorce is to build a strong team of divorce professionals who assist a family as they transition through the divorce process while keeping conflict to a minimum. To that end, each spouse will have their own attorney who is committed to seeing the couple’s differences successfully resolved. Other professionals include child psychologists, child custody specialists, family therapists, financial advisors, and any other experts that can help spouses resolve conflict and create a beneficial divorce decree.
How Does Collaborative Divorce Benefit Families?
A collaborative process makes divorce easier for parents and children. For parents, the divorce process becomes much cheaper, faster, and less stressful by giving parents complete control over the terms of the divorce decree. Traditional divorce is far more costly and drawn-out, and couples whose divorce is decided by a judge are less likely to be satisfied with a judge’s decisions. Spouses generally feel like they get their needs heard and their priorities met, and, unlike court-ordered mediation, can take as long as necessary to negotiate their differences.
Children benefit from parents who are not fighting all the time, strapped for cash, or pressed for time. If a family therapist is involved, he or she can teach parents how to manage their frustrations with each other productively and not place the emotional burden of divorce on the children. Children may also benefit from the help of child custody professionals who can make recommendations about how to create a parenting plan that minimizes the trauma of divorce.
Call a Kane County Collaborative Divorce Lawyer
Divorce can be heartbreaking, but with the help of an experienced Batavia, IL collaborative divorce attorney, many families find compromises that make the best out of a tough situation. To learn more about the collaborative divorce process and whether it suits your situation, call the Law Office of Van A. Larson, P.C. With almost 40 years of practicing family law, we are confident that we can help you, too. Contact us at 630-879-9090.
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https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2005-02551-004
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