Pence attends first reading of UCLA |
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Mary Pence, a senior partner in the Family Law practice group of Feldesman Tucker, attended the "First Reading" of the Uniform Collaborative Law Act ("UCLA") at the July, 2008 conference of the Uniform Law Commission in Big, Sky, Montana. Ms. Pence has been an Observer to the work of the Drafting Committee which has drafted the UCLA over more than a year's time.
Collaborative Law is a relatively-new dispute resolution method which is uniquely suited to helping separating couples to achieve a respectful, mutually-advantageous divorce. Partners Mary Pence, Jonathan Dana, and Sarah Zimmerman all have active Collaborative Law case loads. The provisions of the UCLA will provide uniformity for Collaborative Law practitioners in the various States, will create a "privilege" for communications within the Collaborative Law process, and will require local courts to exempt Collaborative Law cases from rigid scheduling rules, among other provisions. The UCLA was very positively received by the Commission, where it will have its Second Reading, and will hopefully be passed in the summer of 2009. It will then go to the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association and then, if approved there, to the individual states for enactment. |
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