In this article, our McHenry County cooperative divorce attorneys explain collaborative divorce and cooperative divorce.  Collaborative divorce and cooperative divorce are alternative dispute resolution methods that seek to avoid the expense and stress of in-court litigation associated with traditional divorce.  In both a collaborative divorce and a cooperative divorce, the parties seek to resolve issues relating to child support, asset division, and child custody outside of court with the assistance of attorneys with experience in collaborative divorce and cooperative divorce.

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In this article, our McHenry County cooperative divorce lawyers explain how family mediation differs from collaborative or cooperative divorce.  Like collaborative and cooperative divorce, family mediation is a method used to resolve issues surrounding a divorce outside of court. The difference is that, in a family mediation, a neutral third party professional mediator is hired to facilitate the process of reaching a marital settlement agreement. We discuss the pros and cons of mediation as compared to collaborative divorce, cooperative divorce and traditional divorce.

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In this article, our McHenry County divorce lawyers explain marital settlement agreements. A marital settlement agreement is the goal of a collaborative divorce or cooperative divorce.  The purpose of a marital settlement agreement is to resolve issues relating to child support, child custody, spousal maintenance, division of assets, and division of liabilities without the need for a trial. Courts will generally honor the terms of a marital settlement agreement unless they find them to not be in the best interests of any children involved or to be so unreasonably one-sided as to be considered unconscionable.

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