Karen EA Vache, PLLC
Attorney At Law
The Fernwell Building
505 West Riverside, Suite 500
Spokane, Washington 99205
509-326-4162
"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity,
reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."
Edmund Burke, 1775 speech to Parliament on reconciliation with the colonies.
Spokane, Washington Collaborative Law Attorney
As an attorney, it is my goal to take the mystery and stress out of legal proceedings and make sure that clients maintain as much control as possible. If you have been served with divorce papers or are considering divorce, there is a relatively new method of handling divorce and family law disputes that you should learn about. This approach is called collaborative law, or the collaborative process.
At my Spokane, Washington office, I offer collaborative law services for divorce and other family law matters including child custody, visitation, division of property and modifications of parenting plans. For clients who prefer the traditional approach, I offer experienced representation in traditional divorce and family law matters as well.
In collaborative law, each party retains an attorney trained in the collaborative law process. The parties agree that they will try to resolve all of the issues of their divorce or other dispute through the collaborative process without taking the case to court. This agreement, called a "participant agreement," states that both attorneys will withdraw if either spouse decides to take their case to trial. When parties no longer have the hammer of court hanging over their head, they often are able to resolve their disputes through communication and agreement.
In the collaborative law process, the spouses and lawyers hold four person meetings in which all people and attorneys can communicate with each other. Information is shared between all parties in an open exchange. If issues are presented that require the opinion of a financial expert or child welfare expert, neutral experts are retained by the parties to offer assistance.
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To learn more about collaborative law and other forms of Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), including mediation, call 509-326-4162 or contact me online.
The law office of Karen EA Vache represents clients throughout Eastern Washington, including the counties of Spokane, Pend Oreille, Stevens, Ferry, and Lincoln; as well as the cities of Spokane, Spokane Valley, Mead, Millwood, Veradale, Airway Heights, Nine Mile Falls, Colbert, Chattaroy, Deer Park, Liberty Lake, Reardan, Davenport, Medical Lake, Cheney, Newport, Chewelah, St. John, Ritzville, Colville, Moses Lake, Kennewick and Richland.