Tucson Divorce Attorney/Mediator/Collaborative Lawyer


Peter is a clear, compassionate and knowledgeable divorce attorney. He is dedicated to easing clients through the difficult transition from marriage to legal separation or divorce by avoiding the pitfalls of acrimonious adversary proceedings and promoting collaboration and cooperative problem solving.

The focus of Peter's family law practice is to help clients:

  • Maintain strong ties with their children during and after the divorce
  • Secure their financial future
  • Gain more control over the divorce negotiations
  • Use collaborative and cooperative strategies to resolve issues
  • Complete their divorce efficiently and in less time
  • Move on with their new lives
  • Find the tools to facilitate the ability to move on with their new lives
  • Encourage skillful communication
  • Remain educated an informed during all stages of the entire divorce process

While Peter is a skillful negotiator and effective advocate for his clients, he has found that combining these skills with cooperative and collaborative approaches is the most effective way to resolve legal issues involving family conflict. Moreover, it aids clients in finding their way to healing and more settled lives.

Peter is an experienced mediator and collaborative law attorney. He also brings to his law and mediation practice the skills and knowledge gained from a Masters' Degree in Counseling. He knows how difficult the divorce process can be not only from legal a legal and financial perspective but from an emotional perspective as well. Peter is committed to minimizing the likelihood of litigation and courtroom conflict and is able to guide clients through the divorce process in ways that promote ease and understanding and minimize stress.

Peter also knows well that the legal system, while the only one available to obtain a divorce, is far from ideal especially for families. The traditional adversary culture of resorting to litigation to resolve conflict and focusing on “right” and “wrong” to label different points of view is neither useful nor helpful for families undertaking the separation and divorce transition. For this reason, wherever possible, Peter attempts in his Tucson family law practice to redirect the focus toward more cooperative settlement approaches like mediation and collaborative divorce. He knows from the perspective of many years practicing divorce law in Tucson that such approaches support and enhance the ability of clients and families to reduce stress and lead more content and satisfying lives.

Peter Axelrod offers his clients and families a personalized approach to resolving conflict for such legal issues as:

  • Divorce
  • Legal Separation
  • Asset and Debt Division
  • Pre-marital and Post-marital Agreements
  • Child Custody and Visitation
  • Child Support
  • Spousal Maintenance
  • Post-decree Modifications and Enforcement Orders
  • Protective Orders
  • Paternity
  
     
 
  For more information, or to schedule an appointment with Peter Axelrod regarding a family law matter, you may contact him at 520-622-6075 or pdaxelrod@earthlink.net  
 
 
Articles

Hope and Living Powerfully

The next time you find yourself hoping for something, take a close look at the quality of this hope and what is being hoped for. We are not in a position to live powerfully if we are hoping for something out there to happen, some external event that will make us feel better or make life easier........... Read more

Honoring Your Word

What does it mean to honor your word and why is it important. No matter how hard we might try to bury the knowledge that we have not honored our word, now matter to what lengths we may go to minimize situations where this has occurred, we become less than who we are if we do not honor our word........... Read more

Divorce and Stress - Understanding and Eliminating the Root Cause

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Cooperative Resolution vs. Traditional Problem Solving

The transition from marriage to divorce is for many one of the most significant undertaken. For some it can be a festering wound that takes decades to overcome; for others there is a shorter period of acute pain and disorientation. For the fortunate few the transition is made in a partnership of sorts with the divorcing spouse - a partnership that has as its focus kindness, cooperation and a mutual desire to help not only oneself but the other through the transition to a new and previously unseen relationship between the parties; unforeseen in that they did not expect to be single again and new because the territory is uncharted......... Read more

What Really Matters

For many of us, on-going discontent and frustration in one or several areas of our lives seems to be just the way it is, the only discernable option. We may wish for other things, but believe actually getting to those places is out of reach. After a time, discontent and frustration may turn to resignation, especially when we are consistently living in a way that is not congruent with what we value. Life can then take on a shade of gray, and before we know it our time is gone.......... Read more

  
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