Empowering Families

One of the advantages of the collaborative process is that we’re able to work with various professionals in order to target the various elements of the divorce. One possibility is to work with a financial neutral.

It’s a financial neutral’s job from a neutral stance to gather the information about the couple’s finances so that they have a shared understanding of their economic reality. It’s also the financial neutral’s job to help generate options and test those options in such a way that the couple can see the impact of those options not just now, but moving forward into their future.

Another possibility is to work with a divorce coach. It’s the divorce coach’s job to keep an eye on the dynamic and help the couple have less frustrating, more effective conversations as we work through the difficult negotiation of divorce.

And the third possibility is as a child specialist. The child specialist is a mental health professional with specialized training on working with children and divorce and that person usually interviews the children and brings information back to the team, back to the parents and to the other professionals both about these children in particular and about the impact of divorce on children in general for these children’s generational ages and developmental stages.