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Collaborative Law

Collaborative Law is a new approach.  It generates a dignified and co-operative attitude to negotiating and settling issues (finances and children) arising from divorce or family separation.

The collaborative law process may be for you if:

  • You wish to have a dignified and non–aggressive resolution of the issues arising from the breakdown of your relationship;
  • You and your partner have children and wish to keep the children’s needs and interests at the forefront of the decision making, retaining a good relationship as parents;
  • You wish to maintain a continuing (although changed) and amicable relationship with your partner, mutual friends and members of each other’s families; or
  • You wish to retain control over decision making in issues arising from the ending of your relationship.


The collaborative process is probably not for you if:
  • Your main aim in the process is to seek revenge or make your partner suffer;
  • You are too bound up with emotion and cannot separate this from the need to resolve issues;
  • You feel under threat from your spouse or partner;
  • You know that your partner will be dishonest and will try to hide their true financial circumstances; or
  • You wish decisions to be made by a court or a judge in any event.

Deborah Jeff and Margaret Kelly are both trained collaborative lawyers.

For further information, please contact Margaret Kelly on +44 (0) 20 7725 8087 or click here to email Margaret Kelly directly.