Collaborative Family Law

Going through separation and divorce is a difficult and stressful time. How you choose to handle it is up to you. For some, the traditional option of going to court can be painful and emotionally exhausting, as well as traumatic for you and your children, and financially taxing. 

You have another choice: COLLABORATIVE FAMILY LAW

The process of Collaborative Family Law aims to take control of the situation through problem-solving negotiation. It requires your full engagement, an open mind and a willingness to work together with your spouse to design a settlement that meets all the family’s needs. You will each have your own legal advisor to guide you through the Collaborative Process, and to help you focus on achieving your goals through respectful and dignified negotiation. 

Your legal advisor's aim is to help you articulate your needs and set your goals. Then by working as a team with your spouse and their legal advisor, all options will be explored to arrive at a mutually acceptable resolution

Collaborative Family Law looks at the issues flowing from separation and divorce as problems to be solved through mediation, and not battles to be fought. Those who benefit most from this Process, make the paradigm shift from a “rights” based to an “interests” based focus. 

The Collaborative Family Law mediation concept benefits the whole family by:

• allowing maximum input of information needed to make decisions
• providing an open, non-judgmental process which will accommodate changing circumstances as your family grows and changes after the divorce
• increasing you and your family’s emotional intelligence to strengthen and ease future interactions

Toni Pietrantoni - Family Law Mediation - Collaborative Family Law Mississauga Ontario