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Some people think that a collaborative divorce is for the weak or for those who don’t have the guts to duke it out it court. This could not be further from the truth. It truly takes courage to forego the traditional divorce facilitated by the court system and try something different. It takes a lot of guts for two people to decide that they don’t want to fight, and that they’d prefer to come together and dissolve a marriage themselves.
When you go to divorce court, a lawyer speaks for you. When you embark on a collaborative divorce, you get to speak for yourself. The two sides make their own decisions about how things will end, rather than leaving it up to a third party.
A judge is supposed to be impartial, but we are all human, and none of us is free from bias. Plus, there is always part of the story that gets left out or overlooked. If the two people involved in a marriage are the ones deciding the terms to end it, they at least come to the table an awareness of all that has past between them. Who better than the people involved to decide the next steps?
