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      A Child Specialist is a psychologist or therapist who represents the child/children in the divorce process, and who maintains a neutral position with both the parents and the other members of the collaborative team. The Child Specialist assists the child/children to verbalize their feelings, thoughts, and concerns about the divorce. This professional also provides the child/children with tools to manage their own stress as their parents work through the divorce process.
      While the Child Specialist uses their clinical skills in working with the child/children and their parents, it is not therapy in the traditional sense, since the sole focal point is guiding them through the divorce process.
      The Child Specialist assists the collaborative team in providing valuable information about the child/children, and to keep the focus on the needs of the child/children. The Child Specialist also works with the coaching team in developing an effective co-parenting plan.

Why use a Child Specialist?

  • Ensures the child/children's best interests are central in the process
  • Provides parents the guidance to help their child/children through the divorce
  • Discusses post divorce challenges in co-parenting the child/children
  • Maintains neutrality in the collaborative process

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ADP will help you obtain a better or good, uncontested, mediated, collaborative, no court divorce using a legal document assistant [LDA], or mediation with a mediator, or a collaborative divorce using collaborative law with a collaborative attorney or lawyer, resulting in a marital settlement agreement [MSA], memorandum of understanding [MOU], and filing all the necessary legal forms, such as asset and liability and income and expenses financial disclosure forms, as well as a qualified domestic relations order aka QDRO. Your divorce will include all separate, community & quasi community property, debts, financial disclosure forms, retirement plans, 401k plans, pension plans, as well as spousal support, alimony and child support. There will be a custody agreement that might be sole, joint and primary and include move-away issues, as well as a parenting and/or co-parenting plan, and could include pet custody, time-share or visitation schedule. This process is good for co-habitation agreements, as well as civil union, gay & lesbian partners and/or relationships, domestic partnerships.
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