Collaborative Divorce a new choice when all else fails

HARTFORD – Couples seeking to divorce with diplomacy have some new options when hiring professionals to help organize their financial, personal, legal, and emotional affairs.

Connecticut Collaborative Divorce Group is an organization committed to dissolving marriages without destruction.It‘s comprised of financial planners and psychologists to help ensure the process is fair and amicable along the way.

Collaborative divorce is relatively new. Prior to collaboration, the only non-adversarial option was mediation. In collaborative divorce, the parties engage in a voluntary non-dispute resolution process, absent of litigation. It is the mission of both attorneys to resolve issues through negotiation keeping proceedings out of court. It an approach sometimes referred to as divorce with dignity.

“Most people do not want to fight. Everyone hears about the horror stories of an adversarial divorce. They have friends who have been through it,” said Collaborative Divorce Attorney Bob Fried. “Collaborative Divorce removes so much of the ugliness from the process and certainly reduces stress and cost.”

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