While any divorce proceeding can be expensive, the Collaborative Law Divorce process does cost more to start. This is due to the team of professionals that are required at the beginning of the process. As the process moves forward, the cost usually goes down when less input is needed from the team.
In addition, because while working with the other team professionals, the parties are not spending as much time with their attorneys at a higher hourly rate, and are sharing the costs of the professionals instead of each working with a separate professional at their sole costs.