About Collaborative Practice

Collaborative Practice allows you to divorce with dignity, respect, and cooperation. Each spouse retains a lawyer, and both attorneys conduct settlement negotiations to combine your ownership of the process with the assurance of legal protection. The process includes other Collaborative Practice professionals, such as financial planners and therapists. You, your spouse, and your Collaborative Practice team agree to be cooperative, forthcoming, and willing to work together to achieve a resolution. If you can't reach an agreement, both lawyers (and their respective law firms) as well as the other collaborative professionals must withdraw from the case.

By choosing Collaborative Practice to settle your divorce, you'll enjoy these advantages:

• Lower costs
• Less stress
• Create win-win solutions
• Learn creative problem-solving techniques
• Retain control over your future
• Avoid court
• Protect your rights, assets, and your family
• Less bitterness, anger, and conflict

Lori Barkus is a South Florida family law attorney with extensive mediation and collaborative family law training. She has learned that a lawyer's most important task in a divorce matter is to encourage clients to seek the most cost-effective solution which minimizes the trauma experienced by the divorcing parties and their children.

(954) 349-7988
lbarkus@barkuslaw.com
www.barkuslaw.com
View her Divorce Magazine online profile. 

Charlotte Karlan has been practicing family law since 1984. A Supreme Court Certified Family Law Mediator and collaborative lawyer, Charlotte makes sure you understand what is happening at all times in the process. Charlotte feels Collaborative Divorce is the cutting edge of alternate dispute resolution. It enables parties to create win/win settlements with reduced hostility, expense, and time.

(305) 914-5677
charlotte@miamidivorce.com
www.miamidivorce.com
View her Divorce Magazine online profile.  

Carolann Mazza, P.A. has been a practicing attorney for 11 years, licensed both in Florida and Texas, and focuses her practice on family law and related matters. She is trained in Collaborative Divorce and also does work representing children as a Guardian Ad Litem. She is an active member of the Florida Bar Family Law Section and Collaborative Lawyers of South Florida. Ms. Mazza is highly committed to the collaborative practice and believes the best resolution in a family matter is one that is reached by the parties.

(954) 527-4604
carolann@cmazzalaw.com
www.cmazzalaw.com

Roderick C. Moe, CPA, PA has been a CPA for over 30 years and provides forensic accounting services since 1992. He is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst and accredited in Business Valuation by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Rod finds working with couples in a collaborative way guides them through the division of their accumulated net worth and allows them to move on after divorce.

(561) 649-5109
rod@rodmoecpa.com
www.rodmoecpa.com
View his Divorce Magazine online profile.

Visit www.divorcemag.com/articles/Collaborative_Law to find out the benefits of collaborative divorce.