Collaborative Practice is suitable for many types of law and experiments are applying it to many civil contexts: probate, employment, medical error, and business. Still, it most often occurs in the domestic area. There are several different models of collaborative law. In some places, the prevailing model in the community is the two-lawyer model. In other places, there is a multi-disciplinary team approach using a counseling team and financial advisor to work with a family in a collaborative process. You may also hear the terms Collaborative Practice, Collaborative Divorce or Civil Collaborative Law. Collaborative Practice is actually the preferred term since so much of collaborative law is actually interdisciplinary and it is more inclusive to say “collaborative practice”. Collaborative Divorce refers to the full team interdisciplinary model of family law. Civil Collaborative Law refers to non-divorce applications of collaborative practice.