Lower cost
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Lower cost
Divorce for about a tenth of what you'd pay two trial lawyers — and every dollar you don't spend fighting stays with your family.
Denver, Boulder & Statewide
ABetterWayThroughDivorce.PeaceisPossible.
Compassionate divorce mediation and collaborative family law, serving Denver, Boulder, and all of Colorado — less conflict, lower cost, less time, and your family's wellbeing at the center.
Court Acceptance GuaranteeAttorney-mediators, not trial lawyersAbout 1/10th the cost of going to courtChild-centered processTransparent pricingServing all of ColoradoWe co-wrote the book on a better wayOver a thousand families guided
Why families choose this path
Four things a better divorce protects.
Your money. Your children. Your time. Your peace. The process you choose decides all four.
Better for children
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Better for children
Lower conflict protects your kids. They won't remember the paperwork — they'll remember the tone, and a calm process sets it.
Save time
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Save time
Resolved in months, not years — about a quarter of the time a lawyer-driven divorce takes, so you can begin the next chapter sooner.
Lower conflict
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Lower conflict
A structured, respectful process that keeps the decisions with the two of you — and keeps your family out of the courtroom.
What the fight costs
Every dollar spent fighting is a dollar your family never gets back.
The biggest decision isn't who gets the house. It's the process you choose — it sets cost, timeline, and tone.
Mediation settles the same questions for one-tenth the cost — months, not years.
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Mediation
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9–12 months
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Average time and cost per spouse, Colorado
You are not adversaries.
You are two people untangling one shared life.
You want to do right by your family, and the courts don't seem to care. We built this firm as the better way: no courtroom.
The fear of a courtroom battle.
Divorce doesn't have to be a war. Mediation keeps the decisions with the two of you, and the cost, conflict, and timeline far lower.
What this will do to the kids.
Children remember the tone, not the legal details. A low-conflict process shields them and leaves you a co-parenting foundation that holds.
Not knowing where to begin.
Assets, parenting time, support, filings: overwhelming while you are grieving. We map the whole path up front, so you always know the next step and the cost.
The mediation quiz · free · three minutes
Take the quiz. Find out where you stand.
Thirteen questions about the money, the children, and whether the two of you can still talk to each other. At the end you get an honest answer — including “get your own attorney” when that is the truth.
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Free. We email you a copy of your results.
Four possible answers
A strong fit
Mediation, start to finish.
A good fit
With a couple of things to talk through first.
Unclear
Another path may fit better.
Your own attorney
Sometimes that is the honest answer.
Your attorneys
Lawyers who walked away from the courtroom fight.
Peter and John founded Conscious Family Law in 2014, after years inside the traditional system watching reasonable people get turned into opponents. They co-wrote the book on a better way — literally — The Collaborative Divorce Advantage.
Our mission
Divorce better.
It's more than a tagline.
We believe the way a family moves through divorce shapes everything that comes after. Hear John describe the mission behind Conscious Family — in a little over a minute.
Services
Divorce your way.
Our expert mediators help you through divorce cleanly and efficiently, in a way that honors your values and protects your children. It's why over a thousand families have trusted us to guide them.
Six ways we help, one goal: resolution. Keep scrolling — each path stacks onto the last.
01Practice area
Divorce Mediation
Stay out of court. Stay in control.
A neutral, structured process where the two of you make the decisions — parenting, property, support — with a trained attorney-mediator guiding the conversation. Faster and far less expensive than a courtroom fight, and the agreement is yours, not a judge's.
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Legal Representation
An advocate in your corner, on your terms.
We offer unbundled support as well as standard representation — strategy sessions, document review, and help preparing your court paperwork based on the instructions the court provides — so you only pay for the help you actually need.
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What we believe about divorce:
it doesn't have to break you.
Most firms offer one answer: lawyer up and fight. That serves the lawyers far more than the family. We start somewhere else.
Principle 01
Resolution over warfare.
A courtroom turns two people into opponents and hands your most personal decisions to a stranger in a robe. Mediation keeps those choices where they belong: with you.
Principle 02
Lower conflict protects everyone.
Every dollar spent fighting is a dollar not spent on your children. A calmer process costs less, ends sooner, and leaves you the working relationship you'll still need.
Principle 03
Your time matters too.
A courtroom fight can consume a year or more. Mediation resolves the same questions in a fraction of the time, so the hardest chapter stays a chapter, not an era.
Principle 04
The family continues after divorce.
If you share children, you are not ending the relationship, you are reorganizing it. We build agreements for the decade ahead, not just the day you sign, so co-parenting actually works.
How we work together
Three simple steps.
No pressure. No sales pitch. Just a conversation.
Step 01
Begin with a free intro call.
A 15–20 minute call to understand your situation and lay out your options. No pressure, no retainer. For divorce mediation, both spouses join.
Step 02
Get a clear plan and transparent pricing.
No financial ambush. We map the steps, the documents, and what to expect on cost, so you move forward with confidence.
Step 03
Reach an agreement, together.
We guide you through each decision at your pace, draft the settlement agreements, and help with the court paperwork.
Step 01
Begin with a free intro call.
A 15–20 minute call to understand your situation and lay out your options. No pressure, no retainer. For divorce mediation, both spouses join.
Step 02
Get a clear plan and transparent pricing.
No financial ambush. We map the steps, the documents, and what to expect on cost, so you move forward with confidence.
Step 03
Reach an agreement, together.
We guide you through each decision at your pace, draft the settlement agreements, and help with the court paperwork.
The whole path, up front
Know every step before you take the first.
No mystery, no meter running in the dark. This is the typical Conscious Family mediation timeline — most families finish in three to six months.
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Free intro call
A 15–20 minute call to understand your situation and options. Both spouses join for divorce mediation.
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Mediation consult
Meet your mediator, learn the process, and see how Colorado law shapes your path.
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Intention session
Review our Rules of Engagement and commit to how you'll show up.
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Financial exchange
Exchange the records for the court's financial statements. An orientation makes sure nothing is missed.
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Mediation sessions
Your mediator guides you to a resolution. Most families need two to three sessions.
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Agreements & filing
We prepare the court forms from your agreements, then explain how to file.
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Decree
Usually one brief court appearance, then your decree after Colorado's 91-day waiting period.
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Our promise, in writing
If a court won't accept your agreement, we fix it free.
Once your agreements are certified as acceptable and complete by one of our mediators, we guarantee the court will approve them. If anything is rejected, we make it right at no charge. That's the confidence of a team that has guided over a thousand Colorado families to court-accepted agreements.
Certified as acceptable and complete by one of our mediators
Hands-on help preparing your court forms, following the instructions the court provides
If rejected for any reason, corrections are free
From the families we've helped
What a better divorce feels like.
Over a thousand Colorado families have trusted this process. These are their words — including many of the five-star Google reviews they've left along the way.
A client's own experience with divorce mediation — in under a minute.
From our founders
The Collaborative DivorceAdvantage
Divorce consciously to protect your children and avoid financial and emotional bankruptcy.
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Free chapter · From our book
We co-wrote the book on a better way. Read a chapter free.
Why the process you choose decides the cost, the timeline, and the tone
How mediation and collaborative divorce keep your family out of court
What it takes to protect your children through every stage
Written by the two attorney-mediators you'd actually be working with
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Divorce ends a marriage. It does not have to end a family. How you go through it is the part you still get to choose.
— Conscious Family Law