Is A Collaborative Approach Right For You?

You Want It To Be Amicable

You don’t hate the other person - and you don’t want to. You’ve heard the horror stories of years-long battles, burning everything to the ground and resulting in nothing but massive legal bills, fear and loathing on all sides.

You don’t want that for you and your family.

You want it to remain amicable. You’re not going to agree on everything - but you still respect each other and just need help working out how your new life is going to function.

The path of any dispute can be challenging - with worries, traps and uncertainty making it hard to keep your feet the whole time.

When that dispute is the result of your divorce, or the death of a loved one, then those challenges can become that much tougher.

The interdisciplinary collaborative approach that the VACP supports helps by sharing the burden of those challenges amongst a team of professionals.

This team - lawyers, family and communications consultants and financial experts - are there to help you and your family confidently walk the difficult path of your dispute.

But you might be wondering if a team-based, collaborative approach is right for you and your family.

Here are some ways you can tell:

There Is Still Respect

A collaborative process requires respect on all sides to truly work.

Because respect will help you to sit in a room together and listen to the different perspectives, interests and priorities.

If that respect isn’t there, and if you don’t feel safe during the process, then your chances of a successful outcome drop.

You Would Benefit From The Support

Collaborative practice is particularly powerful for people going through divorce or estate disputes because these are, fundamentally, emotional and financial issues first.

Trying to resolve them by focusing on the legal implications on their own makes the path to a resolution much more difficult.

Which is why the interdisciplinary collaborative method incorporates emotional and financial experts. These members of your team help you resolve the powerful emotional and financial questions along the way.

Making for a smoother, more effective and more powerful process - leading to successful outcomes.

Benefits of Collaborative Practice

  • 1. Goals and Priorities

    Both parties goals are explored and respected through the process.

    In fact, they define the process.

  • 2. Better Communication

    Thanks to your commitment to the process and support from your team, you will communicate better - now, and in the future.

  • 3. Your Children Are The Priority

    This process protects your children by minimising the potential conflicts, and prioritising their interests.

  • 4. You're Involved

    Instead of letting the court make decisions for you, you’re both empowered to make your own decisions every step of the way.

  • 5. Less Hostility - Better Future

    The process has been designed to minimise the hostility that can otherwise derail such a big change.

    And less hostility during the process makes for less hostility after the process too.

    All of which helps your family build a peaceful, collaborative future.

  • 6. A Team to Support You

    The support of your team Psychologist and Financial Consultant will help you with the ‘non-legal’ parts of your dispute - instead of leaving you to handle them all alone, as you otherwise would.

What Will You Get From Your Collaboration?

YOU WILL BE ASSISTED WITH PRACTICAL FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS

YOUR LAWYER IS ALWAYS AT YOUR SIDE

YOU WILL HAVE A PARENTING PLAN

YOU WILL LOOK TO THE FUTURE WITH CONFIDENCE

A ONE STOP SHOP APPROACH TO SEPARATION

Speak with one of our members to find out how a team-based collaborative approach could help you and your family