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Contrasting the Perverse Incentive of Family Law and Collaborative Divorce

December 30, 2016 By Staff - s.r. Leave a Comment

conflict in divorce

The Conflict Incentive There is a dirty secret in some family law cases, one that clients only learn about long after they’ve retained counsel, and sometimes only after they look back at the pain, stress, and expense of their divorce.  The secret is that some family lawyers have a perverse incentive.  Attorneys bill clients by the hour to solve their problems.  That means they get paid more if the clients have more problems.  Quite simply, lawyers have an economic incentive to create conflict to bill the file.  Sure they have a lawyers’ creed that says they will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles of Interest, Family Law, From the Firm Tagged With: Collaborative Divorce, Denton, Divorce, Lawyers, Springer & Lyle

Deion and Pilar Sanders’ Divorce Illustrates the High Price of Animosity and the Great Deal we get through Settlement

May 30, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Several sources have reported that Deion Sanders has been ordered to pay over $10,500 in child support and $3,500 mortgage payments.  The shocking part is that he’s been ordered to pay over a quarter million in attorney fees incurred just since April 30, 2012.  In three weeks of attorney fees these parties blew what most of my clients will not earn in a year.  There has, perhaps, never been a clearer example of the high price of contempt and animosity in a family law case.  If you do the math, Deion could pay support for his children for 18 months at the rate his wife’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Law, From the Firm Tagged With: Attorney, Child Custody, Collaborative Divorce, Denton, Divorce, Litigation

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