Fairway Divorce Solutions

Your divorce expert - Karen Stewart

Question: Why is it that just when we finally get everything we dreamed of, our marriage fails? 

Karen: For more than 17 years, I have been helping people manage their finances; in the last 4 years specifically, I have been helping divorcing couples manage their finances and children. Within these combined years (two decades in fact), people have continuously come to me saying: "Wow, we just finished building our dream home and we have everything we have worked so hard to achieve. Now our marriage is over."  

Why? Why? Why?  It seems that perhaps the glue that holds couples together is no longer sticking.  How many times how you heard "empty nest syndrome"? This typically occurs in homes where a child(ren) move out and the parents suddenly realize how lonely they feel. There they are-mom and dad-living under the same roof with nothing in common.  

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Not long ago, I was speaking to a group of people about Fairway's new divorce paradigm. Although they were unanimously excited by the idea and enthusiastically vocal that it is long overdue, they had difficulty even imagining a softer, less painful, less damaging approach to divorce. Even in these progressive times, the idea of "divorce" still packs a heck of a negative punch.

I understand first-hand because of the hard lessons learned from my own divorce through the traditional system. Though it was difficult to endure at the time, the experience of my divorce has given me a new life purpose: to help others avoid the pitfalls that shell-shocked me into a numbing inability to cope during the ordeal and prevented me from moving practically and proactively toward a solution.

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Question: What is the difference between Fairway Divorce Solutions and the traditional divorce solution?

Answer: The traditional way, by definition, implies each party hires a lawyer who fights for the best outcome for their client. The lawyers create a win-lose scenario that uses power and scare tactics to bring the other side to their knees. Quite often lawyers will not settle and you will be at the mercy of the courts where the judge will make the final decision. I am not telling you anything you do not know.

Fairway Divorce Solutions offers divorcing clients an alternative way to move through divorce and transition to a new beginning.

Divorcing couples mutually engage Fairway for a predetermined flat fee to take them step-by-step through a process that brings resolution on all issues of divorce in roughly 120 days. The Fair Way Process^TM uses the Fairway Independently Negotiated Resolution^TM, methodology which empowers people going through divorce to come to negotiated consensus by way of informed decision making. Trained negotiators and financial experts facilitate the process and bring consensus without the couples having to be in the same room. The process addresses issues in a methodical, strategic way so the parties know exactly where they are in the process and where they are going. At the end of the process, when consensus has been achieved on all issues, the Fairway Negotiated Resolution Plan^TM is forwarded to an independent lawyer to draft and finalize.

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