GETTING STARTED

Your first step is to look through the bios of the professionals on Portland Collaborative Divorce’s website: PCD PROFESSIONALS.

Although most clients tend to meet first with an attorney, you can begin with any professional including our family transitions specialists and financial professionals. If you’d like to meet with someone together, you may want to look for a professional who has a mediator or family transitions specialists designation. This can be especially helpful if you are trying to decide what process might be the best fit.

Next contact one or more of the professionals who you think you may like to meet by completing the inquiry form on their individual webpage, sending an email or giving them a call. 

Each professional has a slightly different approach to initial consultations. You’ll want to inquire about that. Some want to meet with you and your spouse together, others by yourself the first time. Each professional sets his or her own fee, as well as the duration of the initial consultation.

It’s important that you and your spouse find someone you both feel comfortable with. This may mean meeting more than one professional for an initial consultation.

Getting a divorce is not an inexpensive process no matter how you approach it, and the expense of each case depends on the complexity of what you own and what you’d like to accomplish. Your level of agreement coming in and the level of cooperation during the process also has an impact.  

After meeting with a professional, he or she will be in a better position to help you analyze what process might be the best for you, and provide a general road map of what it would be like to work with one or more of Portland Collaborative Divorce's professionals.

We hope this helps to get you started. 

Warmly,
The Portland Collaborative Divorce Professionals