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Your questions about collaborative law answered What is collaborative law? It is a process that provides an alternative way of dealing with the consequences arising from separation. Each person appoints their own collaboratively trained lawyer and they then all meet together to work things out face to face. Each person has their lawyer by their side throughout and has support and legal advice as the matter progresses. Is it just another way of lawyers making money? No, it is an alternative way of resolving disputes. The lawyers of course are paid for the professional expertise but they charge no more or less for working collaboratively than they would working in the more traditional way. Is it cheaper than other options? Sometimes but not always. Every couple separating is different and it is hard to compare what something would have cost if another approach w 2W6VBF