If you are facing divorce or separation, you have many questions.

Get answers by attending a Divorce Options™ Workshop. Divorce Options is a public education workshop offered by the OACP at various locations throughout the State of Oregon

(in cooperation with CPCal).

How a Divorce Options™ Workshop Can Help You

Divorce Options™ will help you understand and manage the legal, financial and emotional aspects of this challenging life transition.

Divorce Options™ will help you explore your options and make informed decisions about which process will most likely lead to your desired outcomes.

Divorce Options™ will help you take control of your divorce and move forward with your life, with guidance from trained professionals in law, finance and counseling.

Who Should Attend Divorce Options™?

Workshops are open to all individuals and couples in Oregon who are contemplating separation or divorce.

Whether married, domestic partners or cohabiting;
Whether same or opposite gender;
With or without children.

Divorce Options™ provides you with up-to-date, unbiased information about:

Spousal support, alimony and child support;
Separate and community property;
Tax consequences of divorce;
Legal and physical custody;
Impact of separation and divorce on children.

Find the answers to your important questions:

What happens in court?
How much time do divorces take?
How much do divorces cost?
How do you get started?
What resources are available to you?

Learn the advantages and disadvantages of:

Self-representation (Pro se, or “do-it-yourself”);
Mediation;
Collaborative Practice;
Litigation.

Get advice from professionals on how to:

Talk to your children about divorce;
Protect the things that are important to you;
Preserve family relationships;
Maintain your emotional health and lessen stress;
Work together versus being at odds;
Retain control of the divorce process.

Divorce Options™ workshops are presented by a team of collaborative practitioners trained in this unique process: a collaborative divorce lawyer, a financial specialist and a divorce/communication coach. Each team member has experience guiding other people like you successfully through a divorce without time-consuming and costly litigation.

The cost for the workshop varies.

You may attend individually or as a couple. While preregistration is not always required, we prefer you RSVP: Click the link below for your preferred date.

Divorce Options™ workshops are presented by the Oregon Association of Collaborative Professionals throughout the state.

Upcoming Divorce Options™ Workshops:

~~Divorce Options™ Workshop – 07/09/19 – 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm~~
Divorce Options™ Workshop – 08/13/19 – 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Divorce Options™ Workshop – 09/10/19 – 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Divorce Options™ Workshop – 10/08/19 – 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Divorce Options™ Workshop – 11/12/19 – 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Divorce Options™ Workshop – 12/10/19 – 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Benefits of Collaborative Divorce

Avoid Court

With Collaborative Practice, participants do not go to court. In fact, the participants sign an agreement committing to resolve the case entirely outside of court.

Legal Advice

A key feature of Collaborative Divorce is the presence of attorneys who can provide legal advice to their clients during face-to-face negotiations (called “4-way” meetings). In divorce mediation participants typically will not get legal advice unless they hire a consulting attorney.

Negotiating Partner

The Collaborative attorney acts as a negotiating partner with his or her Collaborative client. This is different from divorce mediation where attorneys often do not participate directly in the mediation and it is up to the client to negotiate for him or herself.

Client Control

Collaborative Divorce allows participants to retain control over their own agreement, rather than leaving it up to a judge who is not familiar with their family. Further, Collaborative Divorce allows people to make highly individualized agreements that work best for their family which otherwise could not be ordered by a court due to a court’s limited authority.

Client Satisfaction

Collaborative participants report high degrees of satisfaction with the process as well as the outcome, compared to litigation clients. Even if litigants are satisfied with the outcome of a case, they are often dissatisfied with the cost, stress, uncertainty and acrimony associated with litigation.

Maintain Your Privacy

Collaborative Divorce is a private process, unlike litigation which plays out in a public courtroom. Further, litigation often generates many public documents that include allegations and other “dirty laundry.”

Your Own Timeline

Collaborative Divorce participants create their own timeline. The case can move at the pace that best suits their family. Litigation clients are subject to the timeline and appearance requirements of the court system.

Preservation of Relationships

The preservation of relationships is often important to clients, especially when kids are involved. One of the reasons Collaborative Divorce works so well is because it assists the parties in communicating with each other. Participants often report they have not communicated so well in years.

Oregon Association of Collaborative Professionals [OACP]

Divorce Options™ Workshop