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Rather than slavishly try to recreate the past in each house in alternate years, a divorce provides - [Joint Petition Process](https://thelawcollaborative.com/joint-petition-process/) - For decades California has not recognized that two people might be equally interested in ending their marriage. Instead, in most cases, the only option was for one person to file, instigate, or perpetrate the divorce (by filing the Petition and having it served on the other party) and the other party had to respond, like - [Divorce Needn't be Wholly Acrimony](https://thelawcollaborative.com/divorce-neednt-be-wholly-acrimony/) - [Pre-Divorce Survey](https://thelawcollaborative.com/pre-divorce-survey/) - [The Good Divorce](https://thelawcollaborative.com/good-divorce/) - [How a Collaborative Divorce Can Help Save Your Marriage](https://thelawcollaborative.com/how-a-collaborative-divorce-can-help-save-your-marriage/) - [Ethics: ADR and the Bounds of Advocacy](https://thelawcollaborative.com/ethics-adr-and-the-bounds-of-advocacy/) - [Why We Collaborate](https://thelawcollaborative.com/why-we-collaborate/) - [The Emerging Roles of Lawyers](https://thelawcollaborative.com/the-emerging-roles-of-lawyers/) - [Collaborative Divorce: A Daily Journal Exposé](https://thelawcollaborative.com/collaborative-divorce-a-daily-journal-expose/) - 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