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AN ALTOGETHER BETTER WAY TO DIVORCE

Couples in West Cumbria are being offered a new way to divorce. Two local Firms, H.F.T Gough & Co and Milburns are pioneering a revolutionary approach which helps reduce the emotional cost on couples and their children when families split.

Instead of dealing through solicitors, the new approach, called Collaborative Law, involves couples working with their solicitors, all together in the same room, to reach agreement without the need for costly and stressful court battles.

Sadly, family breakdown is a fact of life. As members of Resolution, a 5700- strong group of family lawyers, we commit to minimising the financial and emotional pain it causes. We do this by adopting a conciliatory approach which puts the needs of any children involved first. Collaborative Law is a natural extension of this idea. By all sitting together, we ensure that couples stay in control of their own futures, instead of leaving decisions to judges in a courtroom.

It takes a certain kind of couple, and a special kind of lawyer – one who is focused on solutions rather than confrontation – to make it work. Where it has been practised elsewhere in the UK , it has achieved remarkable results. We are confident it will here too.