This seminar is designed to help collaborative family law practitioners enhance their skill at creating collaborative cases and overcoming difficulties within the case that could be barriers to settlement. Converting litigation cases into collaborative law cases can be challenging. Obtaining client buy-in to the collaborative law process requires skill and knowledge by practitioners. We will discuss strategies for accurately and fully presenting the collaborative law process option to new and potential clients and finding creative ways to make the collaborative law process affordable to families with limited financial resources. Once the collaborative process is underway there are still a myriad of challenges that can arise. We will discuss advanced negotiation techniques designed to overcome negotiation stalemates, as well as tackling the difficult subject of dealing with parties that have substance abuse or mental health issues that affect case progress and available settlement options. The conference sections will include:

· Collaborative…