Updates and News from Andrea Vacca and the Team at Vacca Law & Mediation

Updates and News from Andrea Vacca

and the Team at Vacca Law & Mediation

Welcome to Our Newsletter:

I'm honored to announce that effective January 1, 2019, I begin my term as the President of the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals. The fact that I’m taking on this new role in 2019 means a lot to me. Exactly 10 years ago, my 2009 New Year’s resolution was that I would stop taking new litigated divorce cases and I would work, instead, with clients who were committed to resolving their family law matters outside of court. Below, I reflect back on my journey to becoming a collaborative attorney and look toward my goals as President of the leading organization of collaborative divorce professionals in the New York metropolitan area.

My first article this month is based on the recent headlines announcing that neither Jeff Bezos nor Justin Bieber have a prenuptial agreement. I discuss what you can do if you married without a prenup.

In my second article I discuss that when millennials decide to divorce, they are making conscious decisions to avoid the nasty, litigated divorces that their parents subjected them to. They know that’s not what they want for their family. Instead, they’re looking for guidance about how to divorce from the media, pop culture, literature and celebrities.

This month, I'm also sharing a podcast about one of the many decisions you'll have to make when ending your marriage: which divorce process will you choose? In this podcast, I discuss the mediation approach to divorce.

Andrea Vacca,

Collaborative Attorney and Mediator

Andrea Vacca, President of New York Association of Collaborative Professionals

Ironically, when I was in law school I thought I wanted to be a litigator. I also knew that I wanted to work with people as opposed to corporations. My parents had a difficult marriage and divorced when I was in college, which led me to be fascinated by family dynamics. I naturally gravitated toward family law classes in law school.

But I soon realized that the courtroom was the absolute worst place for families to try and resolve their differences. The judges were too busy, the process was too long and expensive and no one was happy in the end.

Recent articles by Andrea and the New York Divorce Lawyer Blog:

Jeff Bezos and Justin Bieber Don’t Have Prenuptial Agreements: Do You?

The Positive Influence The Media is

Having on Divorce (Really!)

Listen:

The Mediation Approach to Divorce

Stepping into divorce is like entering a foreign country where you do not know the landscape, language or culture, says divorce coach Karen McMahon. On Karen's podcast, I spoke about divorce mediation, the process where you and your spouse meet together with the mediator in 3-way meetings to identify the issues that need to be resolved, to exchange all requested information and documents, and to utilize non-adversarial problem-solving techniques to arrive at an agreement.

Andrea Vacca is available to speak to your group on the topics of money and marriage, women and divorce, collaborative divorce and mediation or other family law issues.

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