Collaborative Divorce

The attorneys at Haskin Law are trained in Illinois collaborative divorce law. In this type of divorce, each party is represented by an Illinois collaborative divorce lawyer and assisted by mental health and financial professionals. The recent enactment of the Illinois Collaborative Process Act has highlighted the benefits of this team-based approach to settling parenting, financial and other issues without the additional cost, time and emotional stress of litigation.

Collaborative divorces provide a time efficient process in which collaborative divorce lawyers help navigate the increasingly-complex Illinois divorce issues in less time and for less cost than a typical litigated divorce.

The Illinois Collaborative Divorce process is appropriate for couples who want to:

• Reduce stress and animosity rather than nurture contentiousness
• Promote effective communication between partners rather than playing the “blame game”
• Retain decision-making control rather than having strangers decide your fate
• Achieve results reflective of everyone’s needs rather than winning at all costs
• Provide a healthy co-parenting relationship that meets children’s needs rather than having children caught in the middle
• Invest in the future rather than waste money in litigation arguing about the past
• Protect privacy rather than publicly revealing intimate financial matters in the public court records
• Improve the odds for long-term cooperation—making agreements that will be kept rather than broken
• Preserve the positive aspects of relationships rather than denying or destroying them
• Accomplish this life transition in a civil and respectful manner

To learn more about Illinois collaborative divorce law and its benefits, please visit the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois website. They provide answers to many of the common questions about Collaborative Divorce and how it can benefit your family.