The helping profession’s source for divorce information

How do you help couples move, in a healthy way, from the difficult decision to separate to actually getting a legal divorce? As a family therapist or pastoral counselor, how can you guide them so that they avoid the emotional and financial destruction of the adversarial court system, yet ensure that both people have their interests and needs safeguarded in the process?

Hundreds of lawyers in North Carolina, including many of the most successful members of the family law bar, have taken training in a collaborative process for divorce. The collaborative process was the brainchild of a family law attorney in Minneapolis, Minnesota over a decade ago. It provides a healthy alternative to adversarial divorce. The pages on this website will help you become familiar with this option, and will give you information and tools so that you can help couples make a healthy transition from the hard decision to separate to actually obtaining a legal divorce.