With you every step of the way through the divorce process  

The Financial Separation Plan^TM supports collaborative spouses seeking to make their own divorce agreements and individual spouses dealing with adversarial situations. Based on 20 years of experience advising clients and family law professionals, the plan provides the detailed analysis and information required to make informed decisions and reach the best financial outcomes possible. Most importantly, the plan focuses on coordinating each element of agreements and court orders to ensure every decree is implemented successfully as planned.

Suppose you can’t agree on your own for any aspect of your divorce. In that case, the Financial Separation Plan^TM process employs various dispute resolution methods, including mediation, collaboration, and arbitration. If, after that, you honestly can’t agree on any of the individual aspects or anything at all, then the court will ultimately decide for you.

Technically, we don’t have to contact your financial advisor. However, your advisor can save you a lot of time by providing financial documentation on your behalf. More importantly, to reach the best outcome, the Financial Separation Plan^TM seeks input from all of your legal, financial, and mental health professionals.

In Colorado, all divorce costs are generally considered marital expenses unless agreed to otherwise or ordered by the court. This would include experts of any type to provide information, analysis, evaluations, and reports. 

The Financial Separation Plan^TM is flexible, allowing you to change your mind. While choosing the support for the entire process does result in a faster finish to proceedings, you can also start with a consultation and then move in phases through the process or pick the specific services you want, like ordering à la carte at a restaurant. 

Yes. Every aspect of the Financial Separation Plan^TM is thought out in advance, with particular attention paid to communication. Sometimes, who says something can be more important than what is said. We also adjust the communication to match each couple's unique situation. We often communicate with our client's spouse in a non-cooperative or quasi-cooperative case, where we are only hired by one spouse. 

No. We encourage participation and cooperation between spouses, including working on tasks together and meeting with all parties. Still, we can complete group meetings via phone or virtually via Zoom or Teams if needed for logistics or any other reason. We could eliminate three-way meetings if required, but we want to understand the need. 

While we can only encourage them to participate in a cooperative process, one good thing about the traditional litigated process is the mandatory process with required disclosures, tasks, and timelines. This process will proceed with or without them and provide legal sanctions if they refuse to participate and comply with court orders. We prefer any cooperative effort but use the litigation process to get things done.

Yes. Our Financial Separation Plan^TM is specifically designed to solicit and integrate the opinions and perspectives of your existing professionals and their subject matter expert tees. This is extremely helpful when they have historical knowledge of your situation.

No problem. We have a team of vetted professionals who are experienced and versed in the unique aspects of family law and the divorce process who can help cover any jobs or provide an additional respective and independent opinion.

We require all clients to get legal advice before signing any final documents. This can be limited legal advice from a one or two-hour conversation with an attorney. You can move forward with peace of mind, knowing you made good decisions and have a sound agreement that your spouse won’t try to come back and renegotiate later. If you find the right professional to support your goal of coming to your own agreement with your spouse and staying out of court, you won’t have to worry about having your situation hijacked and winding up in court.

If you genuinely agree on everything, the Financial Separation Plan^TM will help you make it official quickly and for minimal cost. However, couples often overestimate their situation when they say they agree on everything. While you may agree on many things you discussed, there are likely many elements you didn’t talk about that need to be decided. Also, many couples feel they agree until they put their agreements into writing and realize they are not entirely on the same page. Additionally, you may decide on these things today, but what about in the future when things change? You may reach a fair agreement today, but in reality, it is leaving one of you at a significant disadvantage. Finally, you both may agree to do something terrible for both of you, putting you in financial or legal jeopardy. We have numerous examples of the above situations where couples who agreed on everything made costly mistakes.