What is "collaborative law"?

What is "collaborative law"?

Collaborative law is an entirely new process. It's an ADR, an alternate dispute resolution, and it's for people who want to opt out of the judicial system. They don't want to turn the decision-making over to some stranger, who is called a judge, and they want to take responsibility for the major decisions in their family and in their lives. The basic concept is that we work as a team. And, the team has one or two coaches. And, the role of a coach is to help the parties communicate and understand each other's need and to be able to sit and communicate their fears, their desires, their needs and their hopes to the other spouse.