Out-of-the-Country Colorado iDivorce
Nov 09, 2009OUTCOME: Colorado divorce completed across the ocean and many time zones, efficiently and to client's satisfaction.
Jiân ("Jane" is her Americanized namesake) and Mark met in Colorado 5 years ago. Jane, a resident of the People's Republic of China, was here on a work visa. They fell in love as collaborating project ... colleagues and got married. Jane acquired US citizenship. Eventually, Mark's career granted him an expatriate opportunity in China and they moved there and acquired a second home. Mark's assignment ended and he returned to Denver. Jane has remained working in China. They have no children and have amicably decided to divorce. But the costs of two lawyers or of Jane's flying back to Colorado to mediate face-to-face seemed prohibitive. Larry affordably and efficiently mediated Jane and Mark's divorce by our innovative iDivorce™ process, with long-distance screen sharing (accomplished with a high speed internet connection). Jane and Mark each had full access visually to our custom divorce collaborative tools (including our Powerpoint® presentation of the Colorado divorce process, online access to and assistance in completing basic Colorado divorce forms, our innovative Excel® Colorado divorce planning tools, and our powerful spousal maintenance and support tax planning software). They watched from the convenience of their homes and the comfort of their own computer screens as issues were outlined, approaches considered, and agreements made. Their detailed divorce planning took place in a single iDivorce™ session arranged at a local time convenient to Jane in Beijing (8:30 a.m. Denver time – 10:30 p.m.). Documents were forwarded by electronic mail and further reviewed in a single final iDivorce™ screen-sharing session. Mark completed certain forms which were signed by Jane and notarized by personnel in the US Embassy in Beijing and returned for Mark's filing with the Colorado divorce court. A clent's praise: “We completed our divorce across the ocean and many timezones, without the costs of my wife traveling back to the States and missing additional work or hiring lawyers to manage these complexities. We both collaboratively considered our options sharing Larry’s computer screen in real time. Larry's iDivorce™ approach was a terrific alternative for us, saving us a lot of time and money and headaches about the logistics.”- K.M. [...names revised for client confidentiality...]
