Online multidisciplinary collaborative divorce system

• US 20060241952A1
• Filed: 04/20/2005
• Published: 10/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael A. Loduha
• Original Assignee: Michael A. Loduha
• Inventors: Loduha, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US11/110,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20060241952A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/18 Legal services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/182 Alternative dispute resolution
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/188 Electronic negotiation

Abstract

An online system providing an internet-based programmed application service in support of multidisciplinary collaborative divorce proceedings. The system includes an interactive introduction web page for viewing and entering information identifying the divorce proceeding and the parties involved including a bulletin board for viewing and entering short messages, an interactive information web page for viewing and entering factual information relating to the divorce proceedings including the status of relationships and financial and property data and an interactive critical path web page for viewing and entering critical path information about the issues and procedures for resolving the issues, and an interactive scheduling web page including a calendar for viewing information about the timeline of events affecting the proceeding and for entering information about new events

Claims

1. A programmed system for providing an online internet-based application service in support of collaborative divorce proceedings, comprising:

a) an interactive introduction web page presentation for viewing and entering information identifying the divorce proceeding and the parties involved including a bulletin board for viewing and entering short messages;

b) an interactive information web page presentation for viewing and entering factual information relating to the divorce proceedings including the status of relationships and financial and property data;

c) an interactive critical path web page presentation for viewing and entering critical path information about the issues and procedures for resolving the issues; and

d) an interactive scheduling web page presentation including a calendar for viewing information about the timeline of events affecting the proceeding and for entering information about new events.

2. The system of claim 1, in which said information web page presentation includes:

an information template for organizing said factual information in subject categories.

3. The system of claim 2, in which said information template includes:

subject categories for other people involved, hot buttons for the wife, hot buttons for the husband, real property, personal property and financial liabilities.

4. The system of claim 1, in which said critical path web page presentation includes:

a critical path template including subject categories for highlighting remaining issues and providing event sequences to resolve them.

5. The system of claim 4, in which said critical path template further includes:

subject categories for information to be gathered, areas of agreement, and critical dates.

6. A process for use in conjunction with an online internet-based programmed application service for supporting collaborative divorce proceedings, comprising the steps of:

a) viewing and entering information identifying the divorce proceeding and the parties involved on a web page;

b) viewing and entering factual information relating to the divorce proceedings including the status of relationships and financial and property data on an interactive information web page presentation;

c) viewing and entering critical path information about the issues and procedures for resolving the issues on an interactive critical path web page; and

d) viewing a case calendar and entering information about the timeline of events affecting the proceeding on an interactive scheduling web page.

7. The process of claim 6, in which said step of viewing and entering information includes the step of:

viewing and entering short messages in a messaging window provided on an said interactive introduction web page.

8. The process of claim 6, in which said step of viewing and entering information includes the step of:

using an information template for organizing said factual information in subject categories.

9. The process of claim 6, in which said step of viewing and entering critical path information includes the step of:

using a template highlighting potential issues and providing procedures for the sequencing of events to resolve them.

10. A process for use in conjunction with an online internet-based programmed application service for supporting collaborative divorce proceedings, comprising the steps of:

a) engaging clients and their personal counselors for participation in a collaborative divorce proceeding including direct online interaction;

b) engaging the attorneys representing said clients for participation in a collaborative divorce proceeding including direct online interaction under the condition that they can not represent the same clients in the event the divorce becomes non-collaborative; and

c) conducting online collaborative negotiations based on interactive web page presentations of relevant information, including;

(i) viewing and entering potentially relevant factual information relating to the divorce proceedings including the status of relationships and financial and property data,

(ii) viewing and entering critical path information about critical path issues and designing resolution procedures for resolving these issues, and

(iii) executing a resolution process in accordance with the resolution procedures.

11. The process of claim 10, in which said step of conducting online collaborative negotiations includes the further sub-steps of:

(iv) revising critical path information about one or more critical path issues and redesigning revised procedures for resolving these issues, and

(v) re-executing the resolution process in accordance with the revised procedures.

12. The process of claim 11, in which said step of conducting online collaborative negotiations includes the further sub-steps of:

(iv) revising the potentially relevant factual information.

13. The process of claim 10, in which said step of conducting online collaborative negotiations includes the further sub-steps of:

(iv) viewing and entering information identifying the divorce proceeding and the parties involved,

(v) viewing a case calendar and entering information about the timeline of events affecting the proceeding.

14. The process of claim 13, in which said step of viewing and entering information includes the step of:

viewing and entering short messages in a messaging window provided on an said interactive introduction web page.

15. The process of claim 10, in which said sub-step of viewing and entering information includes the steps of:

using an information template for organizing said factual information in subject categories, and

using a template highlighting potential issues and providing procedures for a sequencing of events to resolve them.