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The American Bar Association defines the conventional divorce
as follows:
Each person hires a lawyer.
The lawyers may be good at settling cases, in which case they work
toward that goal at the same time that they prepare the case for the
possibility of trial.
If the lawyers are not particularly good at, or interested in, settling
the case all lawyer efforts are aimed solely at preparing for trial,
though a settlement may still result at or near the time of trial.
Either way, the pacing and objectives of the legal representation tend
to be dictated by what happens in court. Cases handled this way generally
involve higher legal fees, and take longer to complete, than collaborative
law cases or mediated cases.
The risk of a high conflict divorce is higher than with divorce mediation
or collaborative law.
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