Introductory Interdisciplinary Collaborative Divorce Training

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Event:
Fri, June 21, 2019 to
Sat, June 22, 2019

Online registration is closed. Questions? Contact Chelsea.Raymer@nashvillebar.org.

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Presented in Partnership with Middle Tennessee Collaborative Alliance and the Nashville Bar Association

Want to help families move through divorce in a way that helps preserve relationships, honors privacy, and respects their needs and interests? Join family law practitioners who are committed to helping families resolve their differences peacefully rather than battling as adversaries in the courtroom and become trained as a Collaborative Divorce professional.

The Middle Tennessee Collaborative Alliance and the Nashville Bar Association invite you to attend a two-day introductory interdisciplinary training that demonstrates a Collaborative Divorce case from beginning to end and teaches the skills needed to be a Collaborative Divorce practitioner.

The training is fun and interactive with attendees participating in the action as the case unfolds. Get ready to be engaged, surprised, and laugh while obtaining 14 CLE credits and learning how to add this ADR method to your practice.

Discover the roles of attorneys, mental health facilitator, and financial neutral as they form a cohesive professional team to support clients in the Collaborative Divorce process. The trainers also will demonstrate how the team meetings, interest-based negotiations, and debriefings work to help clients achieve a mutually acceptable, durable settlement for their family law dispute.

We hope you will join us June 21-22, 2019 at the Nashville Bar Association office to learn this out-of-court, settlement-based, problem-solving approach to divorce. The interdisciplinary training is approved by the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. Financial professionals and mental health professionals are welcome.

Your participant fee includes:

Two-day Introductory Interdisciplinary Collaborative Training approved for 14 CLE credit hours in Tennessee. A detailed agenda can be provided for those submitting continuing education credits in other states and for professions other than law;
Complimentary membership in the Middle Tennessee Collaborative Alliance for the remainder of 2019;
Discounted membership rate for the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals;
Validated parking for both days;
Lunches and snacks for both days; and
Networking reception with local Collaborative Divorce practitioners at the conclusion of the first training day.

Learn more about Collaborative Divorce at MTCollab.com or CollaborativePractice.com.

INTRODUCTION TO COLLABORATIVE LAW AND CLE AGENDA

Tennessee Supreme Court Adopts New Rule Addressing Collaborative Family Law

After opening the issue up to public comment in 2017, directing the Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission to provide comment in June 2018 and holding hearings in October 2018, the Tennessee Supreme Court has officially adopted Rule 53, which addresses the practice of Collaborative Family Law.

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLABORATIVE PROCESS

All divorces are comprised of legal, emotional and financial issues. The Collaborative Process offers an alternative, non-litigated, non-adversarial method of handling these issues. It utilizes an interdisciplinary team made of specially trained professionals who meet in a series of “team” meetings to help the couple resolve their issues in a civil and respectful manner.

The “team” is made up of two attorneys, one neutral mental health professional and one neutral financial professional who work with the parties in a series of joint meetings. The parties voluntarily agree not to litigate, obviating the need for depositions, subpoenas and opposing experts. The attorneys advocate for their clients, but they share the common goal of facilitating mutual agreement between the parties.

Financial costs may be lower, and the emphasis is on cooperation and family privacy. Either party may terminate the process and pursue traditional litigation, in which case the entire team is disqualified from representing the parties in subsequent litigation.

The Collaborative Process allows the professionals to guide the couple through their divorce in an environment grounded in good faith, cooperation, integrity, honesty, transparency and professional ethics. The parties are empowered to determine their own unique resolution, collateral damage is significantly minimized, and post-divorce familial relationships are enhanced relative to the traditional divorce process. The inclusion of the mental health professional in the divorce process is often the most critical component to a successful outcome.

OBJECTIVES

To compare the practice of the Collaborative divorce process to a traditional litigated divorce process.
To utilize the Interdisciplinary Team in the Collaborative Process made up of attorneys, mental health professionals and neutral financial professionals.
To demonstrate the use of informed consent given during an initial interview.
To differentiate the paradigm shift made by each professional team member.
To recognize the different roles of the attorney, neutral mental health professional and the neutral financial professional and their utilization throughout the Collaborative process.
To demonstrate understanding about the use of the Participation Agreement and withdrawal provision that distinguishes Collaborative Law from any other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process.
To describe and apply the use of transparency in the Collaborative Process.
To demonstrate, through role-play, the use of Interest-Based Negotiation played out in “real time”.
To recognize the ethical and legal issues of the Collaborative Process and apply to their practice of Collaborative law.
To apply the principals of the Uniform Collaborative Law Act and Rules (UCLA/R) and jurisdictions with Collaborative Law Statutes to their practice.