How to Interview a Potential Lawyer to Represent You in a High-Conflict Divorce Case by Colleen Honquest When professionals don’t understand high-conflict personalities, cases are prolonged, resolutions do not truly address problems, and lawyers and divorce professionals become distracted by their dramas. Hopefully, as more divorce professionals understand high-conflict personality disorders, the legal system will provide the structure to focus the high-conflict person on learning self-management skills rather than letting them tie up the courts with long, drawn out divorce cases. However, for now, our courts have a mental health problem and the high-conflict cases are clogging up the system and costing legions of clients (and society) millions of dollars.  If you are going into a divorce with a high-conflict individual, you will want to make sure that your lawyer understands the specifics of what they will be dealing with in your case. High-conflict cases can get very expensive very

Five Reasons to Represent Yourself in High-Conflict Divorce Disputes: You know your case better than anyone.   You are the best advocate for your case as you know what happened, when, and all the details of your relationship.  It has most likely taken you years to get to the decision to divorce and to collect and find all the information (and evidence) that you need for your case can seem overwhelming.  If it is going to be time consuming for you to gather your data, imagine how much a lawyer will charge you to go through all of your documents and relationship history.  A lawyer may be a legal expert but if you have a sneaky or high-conflict spouse, he or she will make every step of the process difficult and expensive.   You know the main issues and, hopefully, your end goals.  You have a huge stake in the outcome, so