Collaborative Divorce May Be Right for You if Your Spouse Suffers from Mental Illness
- December 19, 2024
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If your spouse suffers from mental illness, but is competent to proceed with the divorce, you probably know better than anyone that your spouse can be difficult. That your spouse can be difficult is probably an understatement. Your spouse with mental illness makes your married life unbearable; and that is why you have decided you must divorce them. You may have been to marriage counseling to no avail. Your spouse may refuse to take their prescribed medication. They may take their medication, but they may still cause havoc in the marriage.
Further, you may think that your spouse does not make reasonable decisions, including reasonable financial decisions. Even if your spouse is competent to proceed in the divorce process, it is very likely that there may be a rocky road ahead for you during your divorce process. They may not care about the reasonableness of what you are willing to do for them, or what you are willing to give them. They may not follow their attorney’s reasonable advice. They may make decisions that you think are absurd.
You, on the other hand want to minimize the chaos and deescalate the situation. What better way to do this, than with a Collaborative Divorce wherein a mental health neutral is available to both spouses during the Collaborative Divorce process. By proceeding with divorce by the collaborative process, you have extra help to deal with this unfortunate predicament. The extra help is the mental health neutral. Not only does the mental health neutral lead and guide the Team Meeting, assist with the preparation of the parenting plan, if there are children, the mental health neutral can be of great assistance in a case with a spouse with mental health issues. The mental health neutral can speak to your spouse when your spouse exhibits irrational behavior. Between Team meetings, the mental health neutral can assist the attorneys when the spouse with mental health issues does what they want in the collaborative case and fails to follow the goals of the participants in the Team meeting that they had previously agreed to follow. This is a much better process than litigation where there is not a Team effort to resolve the case in an expedited amicable manner.
If you have more questions regarding a Marital and Family Law matter, you may call Ann Marie Giordano Gilden at Ann Marie Giordano Gilden, P.A. on 407-732-7620 and arrange an initial consultation. You may also visit my website at: https://www.annmariegildenlaw.com
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