Category Archives: Collaborative Divorce
Divorce Negotiations and Collaborative Process
Divorce negotiations can be tricky. I mean if you two were “on the same page” you may not be in divorce court, right? What makes collaborative divorce process different is that the process itself address the top 5 reasons divorce … Continue reading
Adult Children of Divorce
ADULT CHILDREN OF DIVORCE Divorce is a life-wrenching experience for both adults and children. The adults at least have some control over their lives and the ability to understand what really happened. After all, it’s their divorce. But the kids … Continue reading
Children Win in Collaborative Divorce: The Role of the Child Specialist
As a society and individually as parents we all want children to reach their highest potential. But they need good “growing ground” in order to do so. The costly negative short-term and long-term effect of divorce on children has long … Continue reading
Retirement Assets and Income in Alimony Cases—Are 72(t) Distributions the Answer?
By Cary B. Stamp, CFP®,CDFA™ Recent court rulings in Florida divorce cases have held that when the alimony calculation is made in a divorce case, all “available sources of income,” including potential withdrawals from equitably distributed IRA and retirement (“Qualified”) … Continue reading
Why Use the Collaborative Process When Most Cases Settle Anyway?
Divorce attorneys are familiar with the statistic that the overwhelming majority of divorce cases are settled before trial. If so many cases are resolved prior to trial in the traditional adversarial method of divorce, then why would anyone desire to … Continue reading
“It ain’t over ’til it’s over”
This famous Yogi Berra quote about baseball holds equally true when it comes to dissolution of marriage. You may think that it will all be done once you attend your final hearing or trial, and receive your Final Judgment of … Continue reading
How Collaborative Divorce Can Help Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver
The disintegrating marriage and resulting march to divorce of the relationship of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver has been well documented by the press and noted by experienced divorce lawyers in West Palm Beach and throughout Palm Beach County. This … Continue reading
DIVORCED: THE EVENT AND THE PROCESS
In a sense we can say that one is either divorced or is not. When the judge’s gavel comes down and she pronounces the divorce final, that’s the moment it happens, officially. But divorce isn’t only an “official” pronouncement. That’s … Continue reading
How Kids Do In Divorce
We now have scientific ways to predict which couples will stay married and which will split with over 90% accuracy. It depends a lot less on the severity of the issues dividing them than upon the way they talk to … Continue reading
Three Ways to Divorce
Getting divorced…not the cheeriest topic around and I hate to even mention it in times like these but then life isn’t always cheery, is it? Still, even in good times people don’t really like to talk about divorce or think … Continue reading

