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The Child Specialist in Collaborative Divorce

By Maria Alba-Fisch

As Charles McEvily described in his introductory article Interdisciplinary Collaborative Divorce, in last month's issue of The Matrimonial Strategist, the child specialist is one member of a collaborative divorce team, which includes two attorneys, two divorce coaches, and a financial specialist. The team helps the couple reach a divorce settlement without going to court, but its purpose is more than court avoidance. Its primary goal is to help the couple define both a good settlement for the entire family and improved communication with each other in the future.

While not all collaborative attorneys use a full team as above, the child specialist's role has two major features that remain fairly constant. First, the child specialist brings into the collaborative process an expertise in child emotional and cognitive development, in temperamental differences, in the parenting styles appropriate to each and in family systems so that the clients' children remain a central concern. This expertise distinguishes the child specialist from a general mental-health practitioner and from a law guardian, either of whom may be comfortable with kids, but may not have this specific expertise.

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