Divorce Options Workshop

The Alaska Association of Collaborative Professionals is a multidisciplinary association of family lawyers, certified public accountants, financial advisors, mediators, and licensed mental health professionals with years of experience helping their clients through the divorce process. During this workshop, we will discuss divorce and dissolution options available to you such as collaboration, mediation, do-it-yourself, and litigation and the pros and cons of each option. Come and ask all those questions burning in your mind.

There will be three speakers:

Dr. Valerie Demming, PhD (Mental Health Professional): Valerie Anne Demming is a Mental Health Professional and Child Specialist with Alaska Association of Collaborative Professionals. She is a Ph.D psychologist and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). She is an experienced therapist who has worked with children, adolescents, individuals, couples, and families for the last 25 years. She has extensive knowledge in the area of child development and behavior. She has worked in the counseling setting with numerous children whose parents are in the process of divorcing or have obtained a divorce. She has additional training from The Grief and Loss Center in Ft. Collins Colorado, which has been invaluable with her work with children, and adults who have gone through or are going through the divorce process.

Lori Colbert, JD (Attorney): Lori Colbert is a lifelong Alaskan. She began her law career in 1995 at Mendel & Huntington. Lori’s practice focuses on family law. She has many years of trial experience in a range of family issues, including adoptions and family formation, surrogacy and other assisted reproduction technologies, divorce, child custody, child support, interstate custody, qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs), and Indian Child Welfare Act cases. She is also trained in mediation.

Lisa Rogers, CPA (Financial Professional): Lisa Rogers, CPA is president of Rogers & Company, CPA, P.C., a local accounting firm providing accounting and tax compliance and consulting services, including helping clients resolve the financial aspects of disputes, including divorces. In recent years, she has worked in collaborative divorce cases, both as the financial neutral member of the professional team and as an outside financial consultant. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Alaska Society of Certified Public Accountants, Alaska Association of Collaborative Professionals, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, and Anchorage Estate Planning Council. She earned the Jay A. Ofsthun Distinguished Service Award recognizing long and meritorious service to the accounting profession in 2006 and 2012.

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