Category Archives: Divorce

Your Divorce Mediation Coach – Part I

       All mediators recommend (or should recommend) that you get your own individual legal advice as a part of the divorce mediation process.
       You may ask why this is necessary since you are mediating your divorce in part to “avoid divorce lawyers”. Won’t hiring separate attorneys defeat the goal of mediation to save costly attorney [...]

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New Standing Orders for CT Divorce Cases

Divorce mediation and collaborative professionals should be aware of ew standing orders in Connecticut divorce cases effective December 1, 2009.
Each new divorce case in CT is assigned a Case Management Date. The parties to the case need to report the status of the case to the court by that date: ready to [...]

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Approaches to Divorce

“Kitchen Table Negotiation”
The spouses negotiate the terms of their own divorce settlement. The parties can either fill out the Dissolution Agreement form provided by the court on their own (not recommended) or one party can hire an attorney to prepare the agreement and the other documents needed to finalize the divorce. The divorce agreement is [...]

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