Family Law Advisor April 2015
Negotiating With Your Spouse By Curtis W. Harrison Knowing and understanding how your spouse handles relationship stress can give you the edge in divorce negotiations.
Attorney Accolades GoransonBain has three family law
We live in a world that thrives on negotiation. Whether
attorneys who have been selected for
you are trying to close a big sale at the office or
inclusion in the 2015 Super Lawyers®
haggling over a Beatles' LP at the local flea market,
Rising Stars listing. The professional
you're negotiating virtually every day. But, unlike
accomplishment places P. Lindely Bain,
traditional "arm'slength" negotiations between relative
Kathryn F. Samler, and Hayley Collins
strangers, in divorce cases each party possesses a
among the only 2.5 percent of the
wealth of insider's knowledge about the other.
Texas' nearly 97,000 attorneys who
Ironically, in most cases neither side uses that
received this annual honor.
knowledge to good effect.
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Recognizing and anticipating how you and your spouse are likely to respond to the stress and conflict that invariably accompany divorce can give you a distinct advantage during the divorce negotiations. Read more
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Charles M. Wilson III has been announced as the recipient of the 2015 Lola Wright Foundation Award for advancing and enhancing legal ethics.