The Collaborative Law Process: Helping Families Transition with Comprehensive Care

Description: A new emerging divorce process is now available to families across Florida. Parents and spouses now have a more peaceful, comprehensive, supportive and effective way to get divorce. Using an interest-based approach where clients and professionals share the same playing field, clients now have the most control over the approach and work product of the professionals they hire enabling more sustainable and protective outcomes. 

This event is sponsored by FMHCA, an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider. FMHCA NBCC Provider# 2058. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  FMHCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This course is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, LMHC, LMFT, LCSW – FMHCA CE Broker #: 50-748

Learning Objectives:

1. A new emerging divorce process is now available to families across Florida. Parents and spouses now have a more peaceful, comprehensive, supportive and effective way to get divorce. 
2. Using an interest-based approach where clients and professionals share the same playing field, clients now have the most control over the approach and work product of the professionals they hire enabling more sustainable and protective outcomes. 
3. Participants will be able to identify at least three ways families can reduce conflict using the collaborative process in comparison to other divorce process options. participants will be able to identify at least three key pieces to the Collaborative Process.
4. Participants will be able to identify at least 3 benefits of using a Collaborative Process for family disputes in comparison to other dispute resolution options.

Tammy Berman a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, an Accredited Collaborative Professional, a Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator, and a Qualified Parenting Coordinator. She is the owner of a group practice called My Counseling Connections and is extensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, certified in Motivational Interviewing and specializes helping clients through the divorce process and in working with teens and their families. She is the current President of the Collaborative Family Law Professionals of South Florida, and co-chairs the 17th Circuit ProBono Project and Outreach Committee of that organization. She is also a member of the Florida Academy of Collaborative Professionals and the South Palm Beach County Collaborative Law Group. She serves on several committees in both these organizations in order to help further the education and exposure of the Collaborative Process to the public and professional community.

Fernanda Pedroso is a collaborative family law attorney practicing in all of South Florida and the managing partner at Collaborative Families Law Center. She practices exclusively in the area of Family law. Mrs. Pedroso is also a Supreme Court Certified Family Law Mediator. Her experience and approach to family law matters provides clients with efficient and effective resolutions that promote the best interest the family as a whole. Fernanda is a board member and Vice President of the Collaborative Family Law Professionals of South Florida, co-chair of the 17^th Judicial Circuit’s Collaborative Pro Bono Project; and co-chair of IDEA—Diversity and Inclusion committee of the FACP. Her involvement with these groups seeks to educate the community on the benefits available to individuals and families handling their family law matters within the Collaborative Process.