Tag Archives: collaborative facilitator

Top 5 Reasons to Choose Collaborative Divorce

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

Divorce is difficult, but not all divorces are created equally.  Here in Tampa Bay and Greater Sarasota, more and more people are choosing to resolve their family law issues via the collaborative process.  Collaborative divorce is a method of dispute … Continue reading →

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Video: Linda Solomon And The Neutral Facilitator Collaborative Divorce Model

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

Collaborative divorce has one simple requirement: The spouses must each retain attorneys who focus solely on helping them reach an agreement on all issues.  The collaborative attorneys are private problem-solving specialists, and they cannot be used in contested court hearings. … Continue reading →

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Five Stages of Grief In Divorce

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

In 1969, a Swiss psychiatrist, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, published a book in which she described the five stages of grief experienced by terminally-ill patients.  This work was later expanded to help explain the emotions of people who have lost a loved … Continue reading →

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Video: General’s Daughter Discusses Her Peaceful Divorce

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

Cynthia Schwarzkopf, daughter of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr, discusses how she and her husband utilized the collaborative family law process to dissolve her marriage in a video released by the Tampa Bay Collaborative Divorce Group. You can see the … Continue reading →

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A Non-Adversarial Divorce in Tampa Bay

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

When most people think of divorce, they think of a courthouse battle.  Florida’s court system pits husband versus wife, mother versus father, and what ensues is many times not too different from divorces depicted in War of the Roses or Kramer vs. … Continue reading →

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Podcast: Forrest “Woody” Mosten on Building a Collaborative Practice

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

Forrest “Woody” Mosten, an internationally renowned collaborative professional and mediator and author of the Collaborative Divorce Handbook, The Complete Guide to Mediation, and Unbundling Legal Services, was recently in Tampa to put on a workshop sponsored by Next Generation Divorce. … Continue reading →

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Tampa Bay Times Article on 2015 Florida Collaborative Divorce Bill

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

The Tampa Bay Times recently published an article on collaborative divorce.  The article quotes four local collaborative professionals (attorneys Ingrid Hooglander, Tanya O’Conner, and Mark Moon, and psychologist Rachel Moskowitz), all of whom are members of Next Generation Divorce, an … Continue reading →

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Freezing High Conflict Divorce Litigation for the Collaborative Process

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

I strongly suggest that any person who is in the initial stages of a Florida divorce consider engaging in the collaborative process from the very beginning.  This simply means that each spouses hires an attorney solely for the purpose of helping them … Continue reading →

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What is the Purpose of Florida Family Law?

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

Anyone who has gone through a divorce, paternity, or other family law proceeding in Hillsborough County or elsewhere in Florida may have wondered: What is the purpose of Florida Family Law? Well, section 61.001(2) purports to have an answer:

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Podcast: Carrollwood Mental Health Counselor Discusses Collaborative Divorce

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

In the latest Divorce Without Destruction, host Garin Vick speaks with Linda Peterman, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor.  Linda discusses her views on collaborative divorce as practiced in Carrollwood and the greater Tampa Bay area: I … Continue reading →

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