Parties unfamiliar with the legal system shudder at the thought of seeing their life in its most personal context, displayed on a witness stand before a judge and a courtroom full of peering ...

Last month, Womble Bond Dickinson launched “Doing Well by Doing Good,” a thought leadership series focused on ways in which environmental and social governance impact business. The following article ...

COVID-19 has put pressure on everyone, especially couples who have problems in their relationship. The stress of being forced to live in a limited space and losing a job, income and possibly a home ...

There is much discussion today from different groups as to what does or should count as marriage and whether Bermuda should embrace the concept of same-sex marriage as much of the rest of the world ...

Talk more to each other, less to the judge. That’s the theory behind the collaborative law process, designed to advance settlements of civil cases without trial. While it shares that goal with most ...

In family law, collaborative practice is the legal process allowing the participants to work with collaboratively trained professionals to achieve the best outcome for themselves and their children.

We urge the Judiciary Committee to consider a proposal to enact the Uniform Collaborative Law Act in Connecticut. Like mediation, the practice of collaborative law has emerged primarily in the context ...

One morning seven years ago, Tammy's* husband Scott* came home from his regular Sunday morning bike ride. He was heading for the coffee but wondered if his wife of more than 20 years might like a cup ...

Mississippi became the 25th state this year to adopt rules of collaborative law, which allows people to sit together at the table to work through their differences in hopes of avoiding what could ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Damien Carrick: Breaking up is never easy. If you commence Family Court proceedings, inevitably ...