Central Florida leads the collaborative movement. In April 2022, during World Creativity & Innovation Week, the The City of Orlando recognized the Collaborative Process model as a creative and innovative way for individuals, groups, units, neighborhoods, and governments to resolve disputes peacefully, respectfully, and privately with the support of a multidisciplinary team.
The Collaborative Process Promotes Creativity and Innovation
What can clients do with their retained power in the Collaborative Process? Using the Collaborative Law Process, they can harness their power to sign binding settlement contracts, express creative solutions to advance their respective and mutual goals, and stay out of court.
Collaborators working in a confidential, intimate, and encouraging environment may achieve — by contract — “person-oriented” remedies. Such remedies may include like “an apology, a handshake, and invitation.”
Clients may express choices by contract commitments that advance their goals. These goals may include maintaining personal relationships (for example, as coparents), preserving bonds in an interdependent group (for example, a family, a neighborhood, or a social group), or moving past the dispute in harmony, without their relationships irreparably destroyed (for example, to continue in business together).
Even a well-meaning judge – but a stranger to the parties – seldom can impose remedies beyond those equity and law provide for the claims that the parties have presented to the judge for adjudication. Statutes, case precedent, and rules of procedure and evidence constrain judges from ordering actions or awarding relief they believe to be “fair.”
Collaborative Family Law: Expanded Choices
Retaining control over solutions expands what people can agree to do. As the Orlando Proclamation states, the City of Orlando has a long history of encouraging and leading the way for peacemaking between individuals, groups, units, neighborhoods, and governments. Mediation and the Collaborative Process in Orlando are two crucial alternatives to resolving issues in court combat.
Further, by collaborating, people may retain power to control their future relationships. They may think beyond binary legal positions. They may expand options for settlement and achieve outcomes unavailable to them in other processes.
In the family context, parents can take on obligations by contract that a judge cannot order otherwise. For their families, their businesses, and themselves, by engaging in the Collaborative Law Process, they may retain control over their lives and emerge satisfied with the process in which they reached agreements.
For more information read:
When Clients Retain Their Power: The Collaborative Law Process
Harness Collaborative Contract Power!
FAQs Florida Collaborative Divorce
Cost of Collaborative v. Cost of Litigation
Florida’s Collaborative Law System
Include Allied Professionals in the Collaborative Process
Collaborative Family Law: Florida Favors Settlement Agreements