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um I will say on in most cases it’s
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usually cheaper however collaborative is
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front a front-loaded process and what I
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mean by that is that you’re paying
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retainers for your professionals as they
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start whereas in litigation you’re
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usually paying only your attorney to
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start and then you’re hiring people as
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you go through the process so you know
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hiring you know experts or uh people for
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valuation and that type of thing and it
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gets more and more expensive as you get
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to trial so while you’re frontloading it
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it uh in collaborative um you it usually
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ends up being a lot less expensive
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because you’re the result is you’re
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ending up in an agreement what’s called
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a marital settlement agreement is the
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end result of the collaborative process
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and that is basically a contract between
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the parties that addresses all issues in
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their divorce including you know custody
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of their children child and spouse
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support and property division in
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Sacramento we are working right now on a
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new program to try to make collaborative
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law more accessible to everyone and so
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we are working on different models of
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the process to try to create um packages
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of of the process which would allow more
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people to be able to to you know engage
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in the process