Archive

19Jun
2015

Collaborative Training For Clients

One Couple’s Collaborative Experience: More and more people are opting for the Collaborative approach when choosing a divorce process.  You may have relatives, friends, family members or co-workers who have told you about ...

04Aug
2014

This American Life: Collaborative Practice

This is an episode of This American Life based around Break-Ups and Divorce. If you’d like to listen solely to the piece on collaborative divorce, skip to 45:10. Otherwise, the transcript is below for your reading pleasure.

01Aug
2014

Other Peoples’ Divorces

Do you ever read about other people’s divorces? As a lawyer I do all the time.  Ordinarily, however, I am reading what they refer to as the “advance sheets”, little books that include the most recent cases coming out ...

01Aug
2014

Trusting In The Collaborative Process

Those who choose the Collaborative Process for their divorce or legal separation come in all shapes and sizes, from different economic circumstances, from different cultures and nationalities, and with different life experiences.

31Jul
2014

Welcome to Ballard Collaborative Law

I am excited to announce, after 20 years of operating as the Law Offices of Kevin R. Scudder, the emergence of Ballard Collaborative Law, Arbitration & Mediation, Inc. “Emergence” is a good way to describe the change. ...

31Jul
2014

Agreements In The Collaborative Process

Most family law cases result in a settlement short of going to trial.  If you are just starting a divorce action you are best served by giving thought to your settlement and the settlement process from the very beginning of ...