Collaborative lawyers generally charge by the hour as do conventional family lawyers. Legal aid may be available, dependingon income and capital.

No-one can predict exactly what you will pay for this kind of representation because every case is different. Your issues may be simple or complex; you and your partner may have already reached agreement on most, or none, of your issues. You may be very preciseor very casual in your approach to problems. You and your partner may be at very different emotional stages in coming to terms with separating from one another. What can be said with confidence isthat no other kind of professional conflict resolution assistance isconsistently as efficient or economical as collaborative law for asbroad a range of clients..