LAWYERS LAUNCH DIGNIFIED DIVORCE PROCESS IN YORKSHIRE
16/05/08
News Release
14 March 2008
LAWYERS LAUNCH DIGNIFIED DIVORCE PROCESS IN YORKSHIRE
Couples in the Yorkshire region seeking a more dignified way to divorce can now benefit from a new collaborative approach that’s being pioneered by a group of specialist family solicitors in West and North Yorkshire. There are around 51 Resolution (a family law group) trained collaborative family lawyers in the region and there are a number of lawyers due to train as collaborative family lawyers in 2008.
At a launch event in Leeds which took place on Wednesday 12 March 2008 at the Civic Hall in the presence of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Leeds, to which solicitors, barristers, financial advisers, accountants, life coaches, counsellors and members of the judiciary were invited the guests heard different perspectives on the collaborative law process from practitioner and collaborative family lawyer, Norman Taylor at Zermansky & Partners as well as Ian Lloyd who has been through the collaborative process as a client.
Collaborative law offers an alternative approach to the traditional court process. Collaborative law can often provide a better non-confrontational way of finding solutions together, to help ease the pain of family breakdown.
Local collaborative family lawyer at Clarion Solicitors and spokesperson for the West Yorkshire Resolution group, Victoria Tilbrook, explains: “With the collaborative approach, you sit down with your former partner, your solicitor and their solicitor, and commit to sorting things out together. The lawyers representing the parties are absolutely committed to helping the parties to find the best solution by agreement rather than through conflict and without court intervention.”
“You share your hopes, your aspirations, your expectations and even your fears, and the four of you work together to create an agreement you are all happy with. You emerge from the process ready to get on with the rest of your life, without the bitterness and unresolved anger that so often accompanies the divorce process.”
Ian Lloyd confirms the benefits of collaborative family law and states that: “The collaborative process enabled me to achieve my aim which was to remain friends with my former wife. We were in control of the process and matters moved forward more quickly than expected resulting in an outcome that we both found to be acceptable and satisfy our respective interests.”
A free information pack on collaborative family law can be downloaded at www.collablaw.org.uk or for more information about collaborative family law in West & North Yorkshire please go to www.collabfamilylawyorks.co.uk.
For more information about Resolution please visit http://www.resolution.org.uk
Note to editors
For further information please contact collaborative family lawyer, Victoria Tilbrook at Clarion Solicitors, Britannia Chambers, 4 Oxford Place, Leeds, LS1 3AX T: 0113 2223241. E. v.tilbrook@clarionsolcitors.com