Collaborative Divorce Attorneys in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, VA Keep You and Your Spouse Out of the Courtroom
Dedicated legal team provides you with mutually respectful options in your divorce
At Shannon & Associates, P.C., we have experience handling divorces in a less contentious manner through collaboration. Collaborative divorce focuses on arriving at a divorce settlement by agreement between the spouses. It lessens the emotional toll of the process and can save you money, too.
Contact us online or by phone at (757) 228-5529 to schedule an appointment with one of our attorneys.
Your entire family can benefit from a collaborative divorce in Virginia
After deciding to take the route of a collaborative divorce, you and your spouse sign an agreement promising to stay out of the courtroom and automatically gain more control over the process. By not being in front of a judge while deciding deeply intimate issues, such as child support and custody, you and your spouse keep the matter private until a settlement is reached and filed. Additional benefits include:
- Lower costs
- Setting a timetable for a settlement
- Emphasis on the needs of your child
- Reliance on mutually agreed upon experts to provide guidance
- Open communication and disclosure between you and your spouse
- Honest information sharing
- Encouraging a respectful approach to divorce
- Resolution of critical issues
- Settlement of an issue only occurs if you and your spouse both accept the terms
What if we cannot reach a settlement?
Should the negotiations break down to such an extent that you and your spouse agree no settlement can occur without court intervention and the need to litigate arises, the collaborative divorce must formally end before you and your spouse enter the courtroom. At that time, keeping the family lawyer who represented you during the collaborative divorce process to represent you in court is helpful because of that lawyer’s detailed knowledge of what’s behind the issues. And in such an instance, our experienced courtroom attorneys at Shannon & Associates, P.C. represent you in contentious divorce litigation in court, too.
Learn more about collaborative divorce in Chesapeake and Virginia Beach
Shannon & Associates, P.C. serves the Norfolk and Virginia Beach, VA areas through its centrally located office in Chesapeake. Contact us online or by phone at (757) 228-5529 to schedule an appointment with our knowledgeable family and divorce lawyers
