Collaborative Law Institute of Texas, Inc.

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Collaborative Law was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when lawyer Stuart Webb noticed that the way his profession had trained him to respond to conflict was causing harm to his clients and was taking a toll on his health. He decided that there must be a better way to practice divorce law and soon discovered that other lawyers felt the same way. They formed a group and began to practice divorce law collaboratively. Soon the process had spread throughout the United States and Canada, including Texas due to the efforts of Pauline Tesler of California, who came to Texas in 1999 as the guest of John McShane and Larry Hance (Dallas attorneys), to speak at the Advanced Family Law Course, a four-day educational seminar attended every year by almost 2000 Texas family law attorneys. Since that time, through the efforts of Harry Tindall, a collaborative family lawyer in Houston, Texas became the first state in the nation to have a Collaborative Law Statute passed by its Legislature. Click Here. The statute protects divorcing spouses from the ominous ligiation procedures and deadlines and gives couples time to create a settlement which meets the unique needs of their family. Additionally, numerous Collaborative Law seminars have been offered to family law attorneys, mental health professionals and financial professionals featuring nationally known speakers such as Stuart Webb, Pauline Tesler, Chip Rose and Sherry Goren Slovin. Over 600 lawyers, mental health professionals and...

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