Why would UK divorce professionals want to be associated with avoiding court?

It's a fair question.

For years, UK law firms have included lines like "but we'll fight your corner" in their advertising text. Yet times are changing.

On Saturday 19 August, The Telegraph included information about a better way to divorce, using professionals from the UK Amicable Divorce Network Directory.

These are a holistic range of experts in law, finance and wellbeing, who share a common goal. To keep their clients out of a toxic and financially crippling family law legal system. To keep their divorce out of court.

As the mastermind behind the international Amicable Divorce Network Tracy Ann Moore-Grant states: "The professionals in the Amicable Divorce Network are amicable - so the clients don't have to be."

Because the truth is, divorcing couples are often very angry and expecting them to be the only one's trying to keep their divorce out of court, is unrealistic and unfair.

What they need are divorce professionals who genuinely keeping their divorce on track despite the anguish and rage, and providing a sensible flexible customer-focused process that makes resorting to court only necessary when one spouse acts without sense or reason (because no reasonable person needs to use the courts).

And even then, the remaining 'sane' client can navigate a much less expensive route and not get drawn into unnecessary levels of conflict.

The magic formula is one that exists for all to use - it's the one I've been using as a Divorce Strategist for years now - but the Amicable Divorce Network puts it into a neat and easy to manage journey that does not rely totally on mediation for success. Let mediation work its wonders, but if an area is difficult to agree on, simply use an arbitrator to tie up those loose ends.

As courts become increasingly impatient with couples using the legal system to bully each other, and as the ability to fund an expensive divorce becomes ever harder for the average person, then this ethical way of working makes a lot of sense.

But what makes the Amicable Divorce Network completely unique is not claims of trying to help clients keep their divorce more peaceful. There are now plenty of law firms who are promising that. Wha't unique about the ADN is the fact that professionals are vetted and approved to be part of the network.

If, for example, a family law solicitor does not genuinely try to avoid court within reason, their fellow network professionals will not just feel they are letting the team down. That family solicitor will have to leave the network.

When's the last time a UK lawyer was asked to leave Resolution, because they just weren't trying hard enough to keep their clients out of court?!

It is this genuine commitment to more peaceful and sane ways to navigate divorce that made me not just join the UK ADN, but to become its ambassador.

See our UK Amicable Divorce Network professionals here: CLICK