In our court system, a divorce may take more than a year after a petition is filed to become final. Emotionally drained individuals walk away with no one a victor. Contact our firm today to speak with an attorney about the possibility of using the collaborative approach in your divorce.
Is It Better To Fight It Out, or Work Together?
Lawsuits can be costly, time-consuming and emotionally draining. Taking an important child custody, child support, property division or other divorce matter to court can result in an outcome that disappoints everyone involved. In fact, many lawyers and judges will say that if neither party is happy when the final ruling is made, it was probably the right decision.
There is an alternative to giving control over to the courts. You can work together in a collaborative law setting to resolve disputes and establish agreements that are truly custom tailored to the needs of your family. The team at the Sweeney Law Offices can help.
Our trained collaborative law attorneys serve the legal needs of families in the Pittsburgh area and throughout western Pennsylvania. Contact us today to discuss whether collaborative divorce may be a real option in your case, or continue reading to learn more about some of the general concepts and features of collaborative family law.
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While the traditional adversarial process may be necessary to protect your rights and interests in a divorce or child custody dispute, in most cases you will find that the collaborative process offers a chance to avoid unnecessary expense, delay and stress for everyone involved, especially the children who are looking to you to set an example of how important issues are handled.
Not many attorneys are trained or experienced in the use of collaborative law techniques. The team at the Sweeney Law Offices has received specific training from the Collaborative Law Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania (CLASP) and has extensive experience in the collaborative approach to resolving custody, complex property division, support and other issues in divorce. Contact us today to learn more.
Collaborative Law Practice Areas
While collaborative law is most commonly used to resolve family law issues, the use of the method is expanding into more practice areas - most notably in the areas of employment law, business disputes and probate. If you are interested in learning more about collaborative law and whether this approach is appropriate for your legal matter, contact Sweeney Law Offices, located in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. An attorney experienced in the collaborative method can evaluate your case and help you choose the right path to resolve your issues.
Opportunities for Collaborative Law Practice
Collaborative law has been promoted and advocated by legal practitioners. Because of their experience with adversarial litigation, many lawyers acknowledge that litigation can be expensive and inefficient.
In the following areas of the law, collaborative law has been used to bring a dispute to conclusion. In some, the process may not have been specifically formalized with a collaborative law-style agreement; however, the parties and their attorneys were committed to a non-litigious process and felt that the outcomes were positive for everyone involved.
- Banking
- Computer and high technology
- Construction
- Consumer protection
- Contract disputes
- Dissolution of business relationships
- Employment
- Environmental legal disputes
- Family business disputes
- Health care
- Housing
- Income distribution and profit-sharing
- Insurance
- Intellectual property (patent, trademark)
- Land use/zoning
- Landlord-tenant
- Leadership succession
- Legal malpractice
- Medical malpractice
- Non-compete agreements
- Partnership disputes
- Personal injury
- Probate
- Product liability
- Professional liability
- Real estate
- Securities
- Tax
Conclusion
All it takes to initiate a collaborative law process in any legal matter is for the client or the attorney to request or offer the option. If you are involved in a legal matter that you would prefer to resolve collaboratively, an experienced collaborative law attorney from Sweeney Law Offices in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania can help you.
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