What is the Eclipse®
Collaborative Law System?

The tool that makes a good idea work.

        The Eclipse® Collaborative Law System was not designed to make divorce easy.  Marriage is serious and important and must be respected both for what it means to the spouses and their children and to society as a whole.

        But it is in the nature of life that things change and sometimes a marriage doesn't work out.  In those cases, helping the spouses reconcile their differences within the context of their changing relationship - especially where there are children - in a peaceful and honorable way is what collaborative divorce and the Eclipse® Collaborative Law System is all about.

        The tool must fit the task at hand - and helping people going through divorce required a tool that bridges the gap between the spouses changing personal and private relationship and their legal and public one.

        Divorce is difficult because it is two things going on at once:
  •    It is the untying of a personal, private relationship, and
  •    It is the untying of a legal, public relationship.
        These two forms of relationship can become tied in a very complicated knot - a knot that can often be difficult and painful to untie.

        Like any knot, the harder you pull, the harder it is to untie.