Collaborative Law Archives

POSTED Sep 2022

Freed Marcroft Adds Collaborative Divorce Leader Attorney Lisa Cappalli, Expands to New Haven County

Freed Marcroft is pleased to announce the firm’s physical expansion into New Haven County. We are even more pleased to announce that Attorney Lisa J. Cappalli is joining us as...

POSTED Nov 2017

Alternative Ways to Divorce in Connecticut: Litigation, Mediation, and Collaborative Divorce

Table of Contents Alternative Ways to Divorce in Connecticut: Collaborative Divorce and Mediation Collaborative Divorce Mediation Litigated Divorce Next Steps After you decide that a divorce is the best decision for you,...

POSTED Oct 2017

When You’ve Got More to Lose: Collaborative Divorces With Significant Assets

When a marriage with significant assets ends in divorce, the splitting spouses can face an array of challenges that some other couples will never encounter. It may be even more...

POSTED Oct 2017

What are the Big Differences Between Mediation and Collaborative Divorce?

Here in Connecticut, there are several options for divorcing couples who wish to avoid the high cost and stress of high conflict litigation. Two of the most popular alternatives—mediation and collaborative divorce—can work very...

POSTED Apr 2017

What Role Does a Financial Expert Play in the Collaborative Process?

Collaborative divorce aims to minimize the stressful, time-consuming aspects of other divorce methods. You’ll have to cover a wide range of issues throughout this cooperative process. One of these important...

POSTED Mar 2017

How Can a Collaborative Divorce Benefit Your Children?

When you divorce the other parent of your children, does your relationship disappear, or does it become redefined? In reality, the choice is yours. You don’t have to be best...

POSTED Jan 2017

Collaboration or Mediation?

Divorce is a major life change for you and your children, but it doesn’t have to be conflict-laden or emotionally devastating. Although most people think that divorce is characterized by...

POSTED Nov 2016

What Every Couple Should Know About Collaborative Divorce

Divorce is always an emotionally challenging experience, but the collaborative approach takes away that stereotypical adversarial aspect. Instead, collaboration fosters a cooperative environment where you and your spouse can resolve...

POSTED Sep 2016

Collaborative Divorce: The Non-Adversarial Alternative

For decades if people were getting a divorce, they could expect to have to present their cases in front of a judge. Even if they were largely in agreement about...

POSTED Jul 2016

Grace and Frankie, Silver Divorce, and (Special Guest and Pop Culture Wiz) Meghan’s Mom

It’s summer, and, of course, we should all be outside. But just in case you want to beat the heat by spending a blissful afternoon bingewatching Netflix, consider Grace and Frankie. The show...