Lex Familia has been seeing many articles recently concerning the advent of collaborative divorce, which is a system designed to civilize the divorce process. In collaborative divorce, the parties and their lawyers agree to work out the issues, relying on joint professionals such as accountants and social workers, to help them “collaborate” on reaching an agreement. In [...]
Entries from December 2007
December 15, 2007
Right to Counsel in Divorce Cases
An interesting case was decided by the Washington State Supreme Court on December 6, 2007, that addressed the issue of whether an indigent parent is entitled to appointed counsel, at state expense, to represent her during a custody dispute related to a divorce. In King v. King, http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions, the husband was represented by a private [...]
