collaborative process

Just Because Your Marriage Doesn’t Work Doesn’t Mean Your Family Can’t

Learn more about collaborative divorce. Follow Open Palm Law. Facebook-f Twitter Linkedin-in Youtube Need advice now? Contact Joryn! About this week’s author, Joryn Jenkins. Joryn, attorney and Open Palm Founder, began her own firm here in Tampa after a 14-year career in law, two of which she served as a professor of law at Stetson …

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War or Peace For Your Divorce? Choose to Collaborate!

Learn more about collaborative divorce. Follow Open Palm Law. Facebook-f Twitter Linkedin-in Youtube Need advice now? Contact Joryn! About this week’s author, Joryn Jenkins. Joryn, attorney and Open Palm Founder, began her own firm here in Tampa after a 14-year career in law, two of which she served as a professor of law at Stetson …

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Kids Don’t Choose to Divorce; Divorce Collaboratively

Learn more about collaborative divorce. Follow Open Palm Law. Facebook-f Twitter Linkedin-in Youtube Need advice now? Contact Joryn! About this week’s author, Joryn Jenkins. Joryn, attorney and Open Palm Founder, began her own firm here in Tampa after a 14-year career in law, two of which she served as a professor of law at Stetson …

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Is Collaborative Ever Appropriate When a Client Has Borderline Personality Disorder?

Is Collaborative Ever Appropriate When a Client Has Borderline Personality Disorder? Colette didn’t trust anyone. She needed to be in control. She feared abandonment. She suffered intense mood swings. She was impulsive. She displayed inappropriate anger. She could not view things realistically. Colette had a child with Tom, although they weren’t married. The second time …

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Embrace Change

Collaborative divorce offers families the opportunity to work with a team of professionals to negotiate a resolution that meets the highest goals and interests of the entire family.   The only constant in life is that there will always be change. Good times will transform into not-so-good times. Bad times will get better. Life is …

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The Collaborative Process: Initial Conversations Between Co-Collaborative Counsel and Choosing Neutrals

As soon as both clients have chosen their collaborative process attorneys, if you have not yet, reach out to your co-collaborative counsel (that would be “opposing counsel” in a litigated case) and introduce yourself.   You should begin discussing who might be appropriate team members in light of the issues involved in the divorce at …

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Respectful Dialogue A Contagious Core Value of the Collaborative Divorce Process

Disrespectfulness is not tolerated in the collaborative divorce process.   We can probably all sadly agree that our society is devolving into a culture of disrespect. Rather than learning to respect others, because of what the media and our political leaders demonstrate for them on a daily basis, our children learn to disrespect them. Our …

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