Divorce is not just a legal process.
Divorce is a transition that deeply affects you, your children, and your family emotionally, financially, and legally.
After your decision to divorce, your most important decisions are your choice of process and your choice of professionals.
Both Mediation and Collaborative Divorce processes are for clients who want to create agreements respectfully and avoid court and adversarial representation. While this website focuses on Mediation, our sister sites, Collaborative Practice East Bay and Collaborative Practice Golden Gate focus on Collaborative Divorce.
The professionals on this site are trained in both Mediation and Collaborative Divorce and can provide guidance so you can choose the best fit for your family’s needs. Either option can result in a productive and positive process.
Why Mediation/Collaborative Divorce?
You and your spouse or partner determine the outcome, facilitated by one or more professional neutrals. Collaborative Divorce may or may not have a neutral professional depending upon the professionals needed. Benefits of Mediation and Collaborative Divorce include:
- When agreements are made together, they are more likely to be kept
- You have the ability to develop creative solutions tailored to your situation
- They typically are less expensive and are resolved more quickly than a litigated or more traditional divorce process
- Mediation and Collaborative Divorce promote the preservation of the parenting, friendship, business, and family relationships
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Find skilled and compassionate professionals to help you manage the many aspects of divorce—the legal issues, the emotional turmoil, the concerns for children and the financial and property questions.
Divorce Options® Workshops
A FREE community service open to those who want to learn more about the process of divorce. Divorce Options® is a two to three-hour Zoom electronic workshop offered by volunteer professionals.
Each month an attorney, a mental health professional, and a financial professional provide unbiased information about self-representation, mediation, Collaborative Divorce, and traditional representation/litigation. They provide information about the divorce process from their respective professional perspectives.
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