Cascadia Collaborative Divorce

Where you and your family come first.

 

At Cascadia Collaborative Divorce, our primary mission is to support you and your family in navigating your journey through divorce.

What is the Cascadia Collaborative Divorce Practice Group?
As noted above, the Cascadia Collaborative Divorce Practice Group is a dedicated team of allied professionals that collectively work together through the collaborative process to assist you in resolving any Washington State divorce or family matter.  Although our members frequently work together on collaborative cases, we are really a loose association of diverse professionals who share a similar vision and passion for the practice of collaborative divorce.

The resources and experience of our allied professionals stretch across multiple disciplines. Collectively, we have decades of experience in addressing the issues that you are now facing.  Our professionals include family law attorneys, child specialists, financial experts, mental health professionals, collaborative coaches, vocational specialists, and mortgage specialists.  Our goal is provide our clients with the resources and the experience that they need to create a team of professionals to assist them through this difficult time and complex process.



Divorce is a major life transition.
Regardless of the circumstances, divorce is a challenging life event. The Cascadia Collaborative Divorce Practice Group was formed because we firmly believe that there is a better way for divorcing spouses to end their marriage.  Rather than pursuing the path of traditional litigation, our members have embraced the collaborative process, which empowers our clients to make all of the critical decisions regarding their life.  You and your spouse retain control of the process.

You are in control of how your marriage ends, not the courts.
Rather than allowing some judge or commissioner to arbitrarily and unilaterally make some of the most important decisions that our clients will ever face, the collaborative process is designed to give our clients the tools and resources that they need to make informed decisions about their own lives. We're here to help you build a bridge to the future and leave a legacy for your family.

Traditional litigation versus the collaborative divorce process.
The best analogy for traditional litigation is combat.  It is open warfare that is designed to set the stage for the ultimate battle, which is trial.  It is a strictly adversarial process in which each party is pitted against the other in an attempt to get as much as they possibly can.

The collaborative process, on the other hand, is a non-adversarial process.  It is a way of ending your marriage in a respectful, compassionate and rational manner.  In a collaborative divorce, the parties strive to reach a fair settlement through a series of meetings between the two parties and their lawyers, and, often, other allied professionals.

The primary focus of the four-way meetings or joint sessions is to identify the priorities, goals, needs and interests of each of the parties, as well as their children.  Throughout the process, allied professionals are utilized in order to help each party progress towards and create a settlement that is consistent with their interests.  The process is particularly well suited to meeting the unique needs of the parties' children during this difficult and turbulent time.



More about Cascadia
Cascadia Collaborative Alliance is a group of interdisciplinary professionals who help couples divorce with dignity and respect.  Our members work with people on legal, financial and emotional issues common to families in transition.   By building interdisciplinary support teams, we contain conflict, share information and help families solve problems.  All of us are trained in collaborative family law and mediation.

Cascadia is affiliated with King County Collaborative Law, Collaborative Professionals of Washington and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.