PUBLIC MEETING ON NEW WAY OF SOLVING FAMILY DISPUTES

Date Published: 19-May-2009

Galway is to host an information evening on a new way of settling family law and other disputes.Collaborative Practice is a new branch of a process called 'Alternative Dispute Resolution'. This is where the two parties in a dispute - two separated partners for example - sit down face to face and with their solicitors attempt to solve their difficulties.Since 2006 over fifty cases have been successfully concluded using Collaborative Practice. The main advantage of this method is that the Court System is bypassed, saving on legal fees as well as the trauma separation and divorce cases can have on children.Increasing in popularity worldwide, Collaborative Practice is to be explained to the Galway Public at a special meeting on Thursday evening at 6 in the Salthill Hotel.