Colorado Divorce Lawyers And Family Law Paralegals’ Resources
The following are special resources we’ve created for our colleagues (fellow Denver and other Colorado divorce lawyers) and their family law paralegals preparing for and participating in family law and divorce mediation.
We include a descriptive overview of the ordinary mediation process, with special emphasis on the paralegal’s role in assisting divorce lawyers, and suggestions on how to most effectively prepare for divorce and family mediation whether the lawyers and their paralegals are personally attending the mediation, or simply preparing their clients to attend without counsel.
Some of these concern uniquely metropolitan Denver and Colorado divorce-related or Colorado family law issues, but most apply to divorce lawyers and their paralegals generally and irrespective of states or localities.
Consider these articles of interest:
- An Overview of Divorce Mediation: A Guide for Colorado Paralegals and Divorce Lawyers (including the Special Role of Family Law Paralegals): The mediation process described, including the special opportunities for family law paralegals to position it for success.
- Preparing for a Successful Divorce Mediation: A Colorado Family Lawyer (and Paralegal)’s Guide: Our “Top 10 Suggestions List” for divorce lawyers and family law paralegal’s successful preparing for a divorce mediation.
- Should You Stay, or Should You Go? The Role of Family Law Counsel in Attending and Shaping the Divorce Mediation Process: From the 2007 Breckenridge Colorado Family Law Institute, Larry King outlines (with collaborative Colorado family law attorney Ann Gushurst, Esq.) the challenging mediation process issues divorce lawyers are asked to assess and decide the foremost of these: staying (at the office) or accompanying the client to divorce mediation? (in PDF format)
We also invite you to download our two page Divorce Lawyers & Family Law Paralegals’ Mediation Preparation Outline and Critical Checklist in Adobe Acrobat’s Portable Document (PDF) format.
This checklist is specifically designed for Colorado divorce lawyers and their paralegals’ use — to be reprinted and included in your divorce or other domestic relations’ case files.