some of the chief advantages of using

the collaborative process is working

through the system on a timeline that

works for the parties so you’re outside

of the context of litigation and you’re

not on a courts timeline you’re on the

timeline that works best for your family

the other uh key advantage to the

collaborative process is that you’re

focing on family specific Solutions and

so you identify the key issues that you

want to tackle and then you work

cooperatively to come up with potential

Solutions another key advantage to the

collaborative process is that it can be

a cost-saving to the parties and what I

mean by that is that you can avoid the

duplication of efforts to some extent

because you work together on some of the

components such as gathering information

appraising Properties or other assets uh

working with joint experts rather than

having dueling or competing experts

one of the other ways that collaborative

uh law can sometimes be a cost saving to

the parties is that you are Outsourcing

some of the work that a lawyer might

otherwise do in the process so what I

mean by that is you can work with a

joint Financial neutral a coach and

sometimes even a child specialist and

oftentimes those experts not only bring

in expertise that a lawyer might not

have but oftentimes their hourly rate is

lower than that of a lawyer so

ultimately that can lead to a cost

saving for the parties