Collaborative coaching

Collaborative Coaching

Collaborative family law starts with a commitment from you and your lawyers to stay out of court. It can help you solve a relationship breakdown both effectively and holistically, knowing that court will not be a part of your journey.

Collaborative family law is unique insofar as the professional team you engage facilitate you and your ex-partner address all the aspects of your relationship breakdown in a comprehensive way. In other words, you’re not just looking at the legal impact, but building a positive platform for all parts of your family’s lives.

This includes the financial impact (such as decision of property and other assets), parenting arrangements, child support and spousal maintenance, and living arrangements.

When you engage me as your collaborative coach, I work with you, your ex-partner and a team of professionals – including financial professionals, psychologists, tax advisers and others – to build a comprehensive solution that lets you make the most of life post-separation or divorce.

Children can be included in collaborative family law practice.

In Australia, the collaborative coach does not meet with children as there is a clear distinction between the role of the collaborative coach and that of the child specialist.

A child specialist is a health professional whose function relates primarily to the children or other dependants of the parents. Child Specialists ordinarily hold qualifications as counsellors, psychologists, social workers, relationship therapists or equivalent and have significant experience with family systems theory and expertise in child development.

Parents in the collaborative family law process understandably routinely raise their concerns about the impact of the separation on their children. The child specialists can provide the parents and the collaborative team with peace of mind, knowing that the children’s voice will be heard and their needs will be addressed.

Child Inclusive Collaborative Family Law Practice contributes to reaching more durable agreements and often provides an overall better experience for the family as a whole.

Is Collaborative Practice right for me?

To start thinking about whether a Collaborative model might be right for you, it might assist to do a little self-reflection exercise. Whilst it won’t guarantee whether it will or won’t work for you, it will provide some insight into some of the important things to consider.

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