Archives: Collaborative Divorce

The American Bar Association Family Law Section has just published a second edition of my book, “Settlement Negotiation Techniques in Family Law”.

The COVID-19 outbreak has impacted everything, including issues related to child support by parents who have lost their jobs.

I was pleasantly surprised with Noah Baumbach’s new film “A Marriage Story”.

On March 1, 2018, Loeb & Herman will debut Wisconsin Family Law Case Finder, a subscription based legal research service specifically designed for family law attorneys.

My intent in my column was not to trash the collaborative practice, which has certain benefits. It is rather to speculate on why, if it is such a substantial beneficial as advertised, it has not grown? In fact, it has shrank.

Despite extensive promotion, collaborative law filings remain a minuscule number of actual divorces cases. Here, the author speculates why that downward trend is continuing.

I seem to have a lot of cases right now where one side simply will not accept that the marriage is over.

My column in today’s Wisconsin Law Journal is about my office’s third compilation of statistics about collaborative divorce cases.

A few years ago, it appeared that collaborative divorce, and its cousin, cooperative divorce, would be the “new thing,” revolutionizing the practice of divorce in Wisconsin. It recently felt like time to update the study — which resulted in some very different conclusions.

One event dating back to the end of the 20th century has gained tremendous momentum: collaborative family law.