These pages are about Eclipse^® Divorce - what it is, how it works, how it is different from adversarial divorce litigation and what all this means to you.

It is also about the Eclipse^® CPS - a tool that helps attorneys and other collaborative professionals make the Eclipse^® divorce process effective and efficient -  easier on the parties and their families, and less expensive.
        There is no single explanation that will be meaningful, make sense to or be helpful for every person.  People are just too different.  The best we can do is share our years of experience - sometimes in the form of stories based on how unnamed others have understood or experienced the divorce process and sometimes in a more technical fashion.


One side is very personal and unique to every person.  This is the side with the pain and anguish, the worry, the tears and the anger.
The other side is the public, legal side.  It  is a creature of state law and local rules. On this side of the divorce coin, everyone is treated the same.
    The counselors, financial advisors and attorneys who make up the Advocates Network work hard to keep both sides of the "divorce coin" in balance.  They know that no one way is right for every person or every family.

    You do have options - and you have the strength to choose the right thing.    We are here to help.

How you benefit from the choice of Eclipse ^® divorce Assistance Levels…

    Pretty much the same way you benefit from different sizes when you buy shoes. 

Individual fit is important – lack of fit not only hurts, it can do lasting damage.

Eclipse ^® Divorce allows the independent members of the Advocates Network to ‘customize’ the process to suit the individual best interests of the people going through it.  

There are three basic levels – ‘sizes’ to continue the analogy - of Eclipse ^® Divorce …

• Eclipse^® TAO (Technical Assistance Only)
• Eclipse^® CLAD^TM (Counselor Led Asymmetric Divorce) , and
• Eclipse^® MCD (Multidisciplinary Collaborative Divorce).

we’ve added links to more detailed descriptions of Eclipse^® TAO, CLAD ^TM   and MCD…but

There are very important differences between the ‘fit’ of something like shoes and the ‘fit’ of Eclipse ^® Divorce levels of service…

Shoes only have to fit one person but the fit of a divorce process must fit not only one spouse but the other spouse and the children as well.

You can try on different shoes and put back those that don’t fit – you can’t do this with something as important as your divorce.

The members of the Advocates Network have created this web site so that you can learn at your own time and pace - but with a bit of a warning.  While more for some than others, divorce is very stressful.  Going through it alone can be an invitation to disaster.  Advocates Network members are almost always able to find a few minutes to talk - and they hope you will call.