Daisy Camp, a non-profit founded in 2006 by Jennifer Morris, helps women facing divorce by providing a “camping experience” that:

• Provides reliable information from leading professionals
• Creates a safe, confidential environment in which women can reflect on this change in their lives
• Develops a supportive community among the participants.

The next single day event is scheduled for May 14th and the next weekend retreat is scheduled for August 12-14th.

Considering a collaborative divorce? Consider that Collaborative Law Practice:

• Encourages mutual respect
• Emphasizes the needs of children
• Avoids going to court
• Keeps control of the divorce process with the individuals
• Provides open communication
• Utilizes a problem-solving approach
• Identifies and addresses the entire family’s (both spouses and their children) issues and concerns
• Prepares the family for a new future

Collaborative Law may be right for you if you and your spouse:

• Believe that it is important to protect your children from the harm litigation can inflict
• Place a high value on personal responsibility in resolving conflict
• Are able to focus on a positive solution that works for the entire family
• Want to preserve a respectful working relationship with your spouse after the divorce is over
• See the value in a full, honest, accurate, open exchange of information

The end of a marriage is tragic and the process of divorce can often add to the pain. Divorce is colored by feelings of loss, confusion, and anger; it is hard to see a hopeful future when you and your partner can only see each other as adversaries.

Divorce doesn’t have to be this way. Inovative professionals (lawyers, mental health professionals, and financial specialists) have developed a constructive alternative to divorce as usual – the collaborative divorce. Collaborative divorce is a thoughtful, reasoned approach to divorce based on 3 principles:

• A pledge not to go to court
• The honest exchange of information by both spouses
• Solutions must take into account the highest priorities of all members of the family (both spouses and their children)

Collaborative divorce operates from a foundation of mutual respect and cooperation and encourages both spouses to reach a workable settlement by building on areas of mutual agreement.