{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-3305","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-3305","heading":"Beginning and concluding collaborative law process","body":"BEGINNING AND CONCLUDING COLLABORATIVE LAW PROCESS.\n\nA. A collaborative law process begins when the parties sign a\n\ncollaborative law participation agreement.\n\nB. A tribunal may not order a party to participate in a\n\ncollaborative law process over that party’s objection.\n\nC. A collaborative law process is concluded by a:\n\n1. Resolution of a collaborative matter as evidenced by a\n\nsigned record;\n\n2. Resolution of a part of the collaborative matter, evidenced\n\nby a signed record, in which the parties agree that the remaining\n\nparts of the matter will not be resolved in the process; or\n\n3. Termination of the process.\n\nD. A collaborative law process terminates:\n\n1. When a party gives notice to other parties in a record that\n\nthe process is ended;\n\n2. When a party:\n\na. begins a proceeding related to a collaborative matter\n\nwithout the agreement of all parties, or\n\nb. in a pending proceeding related to the matter:\n\n(1) initiates a pleading, motion, order to show\n\ncause, or request for a conference with the\n\ntribunal,\n\n(2) requests that the proceeding be put on the\n\ntribunal’s active calendar, or\n\n(3) takes similar action requiring notice to be sent\n\nto the parties; or\n\n3. Except as otherwise provided by subsection G of this\n\nsection, when a party discharges a collaborative lawyer or a\n\ncollaborative lawyer withdraws from further representation of a\n\nparty.\n\nE. A party’s collaborative lawyer shall give prompt notice to\n\nall other parties in a record of a discharge or withdrawal.\n\nF. A party may terminate a collaborative law process with or\n\nwithout cause.\n\nG. Notwithstanding the discharge or withdrawal of a\n\ncollaborative lawyer, a collaborative law process continues, if not\n\nlater than thirty (30) days after the date that the notice of the\n\ndischarge or withdrawal of a collaborative lawyer required by\n\nsubsection E of this section is sent to the parties:\n\n1. The unrepresented party engages a successor collaborative\n\nlawyer; and\n\n2. In a signed record:\n\na. the parties consent to continue the process by\n\nreaffirming the collaborative law participation\n\nagreement,\n\nb. the agreement is amended to identify the successor\n\ncollaborative lawyer, and\n\nc. the successor collaborative lawyer confirms the\n\nlawyer’s representation of a party in the\n\ncollaborative process.\n\nH. A collaborative law process does not conclude if, with the\n\nconsent of the parties, a party requests a tribunal to approve a\n\nresolution of the collaborative matter or any part thereof as\n\nevidenced by a signed record.\n\nI. A collaborative law participation agreement may provide\n\nadditional methods of concluding a collaborative law process.","path":["OK Code","Title 12"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os12.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"a714b978c6720db4660bd17b8860f13aff75533990fe10329c9a1def049d5c24","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-3304","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-3306"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}