Collaborative Divorce Handbook (eBook)

Forrest "Woody" Mosten is a collaborative attorney, mediator, author, and educator who is invited to serve as a keynote speaker and presenter at conferences and seminars around the world. For the past three decades, he has been honored as a leader and innovator in the field of conflict resolution by numerous major legal and peacemaking organizations, including the ABA, with its prestigious Lawyer as Problem Solver Award. Woody is the author of The Complete Guide to Mediation, Unbundling Legal Services, and Mediation Career Guide: A Strategic Approach to Building a Successful Practice (Jossey-Bass). He can be reached at www.MostenMediation.com.

Preface.

1 A Paradigm Change from an Adversarial to a Collaborative
Perspective.

2 Collaborative Divorce: What It Is and How It Works

3 How Collaborative Divorce Works with Mediation and Unbundled
Legal Services.

4 Toolbox of Strategies for Collaborative Agreement.

5 The Interdisciplinary Approach of Collaborative Divorce.

6 Informed Consent and Other Best Practices to Ensure
Competence.

7 Making Collaborative Divorce Practice Your Day Job.

8 Building a Profitable Collaborative Practice.

9 Walking the Collaborative Walk: Taking Twenty-Five Steps
Toward Peacemaking.

Glossary.

Appendix A: Additional Resources.

Appendix B: Resources on The Collaborative Divorce Handbook Web
Site.

Bibliography.

About the Author.

About the Contributors.

"Woody Mosten's new book brings the
"how-to" of collaborative divorce squarely up-to-date
and perhaps most importantly, brings to collaborative practice the
legitimacy of the imprimatur of an established, vastly experienced
and well-regarded conflict resolution practitioner."

--Julie Macfarlane in Family Court Review, Volume 48,
Number 3, July 2010.

"Collaborative Divorce Handbook provides a
step-by-step guide to the concepts, tools, and strategies needed to
enter or improve upon collaborative practice. But, more
significantly, Mosten's test provides a compelling call to
re-center legal practice around the client."

-- J. Herbie DiFonzo in Family Law Quarterly, Volume
44, Number 1, Spring 2010.