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The emotions surrounding the end of a marriage often creates significant obstacles to reaching an amicable and fair agreement. While financial and children issues are important in the resolution of a divorce proceeding, the divorcing couple's emotional reactions to the end of the marriage often clouds his or her judgment and leads to protracted and unnecessarily long litigation. In fact, the emotional reactions of the divorcing couple many times make these issues much harder than needed. Even though the divorcing couple may each state that they want what's best for the children, his or her ill feelings towards the other spouse may result in an inability to see what's in the child's best interest.
In the collaborative law process, a divorce coach offers a superior advantage to the divorcing couple in helping them end the martial relationship and assist in the start of a new beginning. A divorce coach is a licensed therapist who meets with the parties both individually and as a couple to assist in dealing with the emotions and hard feelings that may develop as a result of the end of the marriage and/or during the collaborative process. By meeting with the divorcing spouses outside of the collaborative meetings, a divorce coach is able to work on and help the parties deal with the emotions and hard feelings that develop through the process. A divorce coach will not only assist the parties with reaching an agreement through the collaborative process, but he or she will offer the divorcing couple the opportunity to repair the damage that may have resulted from the marriage and assist the parties to respectfully cooperate with the other spouse post-divorce. One advantage to a separation agreement reached through the collaborative process is the parties' ability to work collaboratively with the other spouse through the assistance of the attorneys and the divorce coach many time provides a stronger agreement than reached through the traditional mediation and divorce process and may result in a decreased likelihood of post-divorce conflicts and court proceedings against her/her former spouse.
If you have any questions regarding the collaborative process, please contact an attorney at Hamblett & Kerrigan to discuss.
