One of my biggest fears about the divorce was the impact it could have on my children. Armata & Davis helped minimize conflict and helped my spouse and me focus on what was important for our children.

- Divorce client with 2 children
  aged 8 and 12

Collaboration is critical
Chicago Tribune: February 9, 2005

No one needed to tell Kathe Aldrich the grim statistics about women and money and divorce.

She and her husband, Charles, had been married nearly 30 years when he asked for a divorce. She immediately began worrying about her financial future.

The Rolling Meadows couple has no children, and Kathe Aldrich, 52, has worked full time for 30 years. Nevertheless, she worried that a nasty court fight could drain her finances. So she and her husband turned to a process known as collaborative divorce and were able to officially split in July without sabotaging their portfolios.

The collaborative process, started by Minneapolis family lawyer Stuart Webb in 1990, provides alternative dispute resolution using a team of professionals working jointly for the couple, rather than in adversarial roles. It is just now hitting the radar screen in Illinois, where practitioners estimate that about 300 divorces have been handled this way in the last several years. The state averages about 35,000 divorces a year, records show.....(more)

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