Family Law Services

  • Divorce Mediation
  • Marital Mediation
  • Collaborative Law
  • Family Law Consulting
  • Visitation/Parenting Plans
  • Child Support
  • Alimony (Spousal Support)
  • Property Division
  • Modifications
  • Prenuptial Agreements
  • Postnuptial Agreements

Serving clients in

  • Hampshire County
  • Franklin County
  • Hampden County

 

  

Collaborative Law

The goal of the collaborative divorce approach is to ease the painful process of divorce and help couples resolve family legal issues through respectful, open communication rather than litigation.

In collaborative law, each person retains his or her own trained collaborative lawyer to advise and assist in negotiating mutually satisfactory agreements on all issues. Negotiations take place in settlement meetings that both clients and both lawyers attend. Family and child counselors as well as financial specialists can assist with these meetings. The lawyers do not go to court or threaten to go to court. Settlement is the only agenda.

Each lawyer’s job includes guiding the client toward reasonable resolutions, but all the decisions are made by the clients. The lawyers prepare and process the legal papers required for the divorce settlement that you negotiate.