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Did you know that there was a major change to Chapter 61 of the Florida Statutes regarding Collaborative Family Law? Are you confident that you can competently abide by Florida’s new Collaborative Law Rule of Professional Conduct and Rule of Procedure? Or do you just want to learn how to help people divorce in a […]
The Honorable Edward C. LaRose has been elected Chief Judge of Florida’s Second District Court of Appeals. The Second District hears appeals from most of the Tampa Bay area, including Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco Counties. Judge LaRose has been a supporter of collaborative practice as a private, more humane way to go through divorce and […]
After you decide to divorce, the question of how you divorce can be one of the most consequential decisions you make. You have choices. Many people hire a trial lawyer and go the traditional litigation route to fight it out in court. Usually they do this because they don’t know there are options. In most cases, […]
In June 2017, the Florida Academy of Collaborative Professionals held its fifth annual conference right here in Tampa. The theme of the conference was “Get In On The Act,” in celebration of the recent passage of the Collaborative Law Process Act. Over 200 attorneys, mental health professionals, financial professionals, and others attended the conference to […]
In the video below, from the Florida Academy of Collaborative Professionals, attorneys, mental health professionals, and financial professionals discuss the new collaborative divorce statutes and rules:
Family Diplomacy is thankful for the readers of our blog. We find it helpful to look back every once and a while to see which blog posts our readers find most interesting. Below, you will find our 20 most read blog posts for the first half of 2017: 1. Video: General’s Daughter Discusses Her Peaceful Divorce Cynthia […]
Collaborative divorce attorneys have traditionally gone through specialized training that teaches them cutting edge methods in peaceful and private dispute resolution. As part of this training, we have taken to heart the Florida Supreme Court’s call to provide families facing matrimonial disputes with “therapeutic justice,” which the Court described as follows: Therapeutic justice is a […]
Are you and your spouse in agreement on how to divide your assets and debts? Do you not have any minor or dependent children in common? Are you both willing to attend a final hearing for dissolution of marriage together? Then you and your spouse may qualify for a Simplified Dissolution of Marriage. Advantages of […]
For quite some time, attorneys and mental health professionals have been striving to let the public know that there is a better way to dissolve a marriage: collaborative divorce. Parents do not need to put their children through the horrors of a courtroom custody battle. They can enter into the collaborative process and make decisions […]
On June 5, 2017, the Honorable Ronald N. Ficarrotta, Chief Judge of the Thirteenth Circuit in and for Hillsborough County (which includes Tampa), entered an administrative order seeking to sanction and crack down on frivolous litigation. Litigation is how divorce has traditionally been handled. In litigation, husbands are pitted against wives. Mothers are pitted against fathers. […]
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