Columbus Collaborative Law Attorney

Collaborative law is a relatively new approach to divorce and child custody matters that allows spouses to make decisions for their families in a private and dignified manner. The husband and wife each have a lawyer in a collaborative divorce. They sign an agreement at the beginning of the collaborative law process that neither party will resort to court action to resolve disputes. The agreement states that if either party decides not to continue with the collaborative process, both lawyers must withdraw and the divorce will have to be proceed with attorneys hired to litigate the disagreement in court.

Schedule a consultation with experienced collaborative law attorneys at the Columbus, Ohio, law offices of Dougherty, Hanneman, & Snedaker, LLC, through this web site or by phone.

As stated on the winwindivorce.org web site, collaborative law is considered by its adherents to be "a rational way for reasonable people to deal with divorce, dissolution, legal separation, custody, shared parenting, child support and spousal support. It is a non-adversarial process conducted outside the court system that promotes creative problem solving."

Attorneys Robert Snedaker and James Hanneman of Dougherty, Hanneman, & Snedaker, LLC, practice collaborative law and are trained in the art of principled negotiation. We advise and represent clients through the collaborative process, whereby divorcing spouses concentrate on preserving their dignity and the greater good for their children and their own futures.

Clients of Dougherty, Hanneman, & Snedaker, LLC, turn to us for counsel in Ohio divorce cases because of our concentration in this area of the law. Our collaborative divorce practice is one way in which we enable clients to keep attorney fees under control, to preserve as much money for the family and out of the hands of the IRS as possible, and to maintain parent-child relationships through and beyond the divorce.

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Please contact the attorneys at Dougherty, Hanneman and Snedaker for a confidential consultation with an Ohio State Bar Association Certified Specialist in Family Relations Law regarding your family law issue. Attorneys Douglas Dougherty, James Hanneman and Robert “Chip” Snedaker are three of just ninety-nine attorneys (as of January 1, 2008) in the state of Ohio, who have earned the designation of Certified Specialist, Family Relations Law.