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What is Collaborative divorce?
Collaborative Divorce is an interdisciplinary team approach to dispute resolution in which the parties, their lawyers, and the collaborative team commits to work cooperatively to reach a divorce settlement. The team includes a mental health practitioner as well as a neutral financial professional.
The collaborative team members are all trained in the process of collaborative divorce. The collaborative divorce offers a contained and healing process on how to end a marriage fairly and inexpensively.
What is the NACP?
Following from this, these practitioners have formed an association of collaborative professionals, the National Association of Collaborative Professionals (NACP). The NACP aims to promote collaborative divorce and to train other interested professionals in the theory underpinning behind the process
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NACP
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLABORATIVE PROFESSIONALS
How does it work?
When it becomes clear that a divorce is inevitable but you want to avoid the unpleasantness of bullying lawyers and uncaring court procedures, you and your spouse each appoint collaborative lawyers. Both of you and the lawyers then sign an undertaking not to litigate and not go to court
