Members Section Collaborative Divorce Texas

blankHeader

  • Donate
  • For Professionals
    • Membership Advantages
    • Events/Training
    • Become a Member
    • For Students
    • Volunteer at CDT
    • Advertise with Us
  • Contact Us
  • Login
  • What is Collaborative Divorce?
    • What is Collaborative Divorce
    • Why Use a CDTexas Member?
    • About Us
    • Master and Credentialed Collaborative Divorce Professionals
    • The Gay G. Cox Award for Excellence in Collaborative Law
      • Testimonials
  • FAQs
  • Blog
    • General Articles
  • Find A Professional
    • How Do I Choose a Collaborative Professional?
    • Attorneys
    • Financial Professionals
    • Mental Health Professionals
    • See All
  • Home
  • Find a Collaborative Professional
  • What is a Collaborative Divorce?
    • What is Collaborative Divorce?
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • About CDTexas
    • Master and Credentialed Collaborative Divorce Professionals
    • The Gay G. Cox Award for Excellence in Collaborative Law
  • Blog
    • General Articles
  • For Collaborative Professionals
    • Membership Benefits
    • Events/Training
    • Become a Member
    • For Students
    • Advertise with Us
    • Volunteer at CDT
    • Login
  • Donate
  • Contact Us

Donate

  • Credentialing
  • Members Blog
You are here: Home / Quick Access / Practice Tip for Credentialing in 6 Easy Steps

Practice Tip for Credentialing in 6 Easy Steps

August 16, 2021 By Ronda Robinson

In 2017, Collaborative Divorce Texas made credentialing available to qualified legal, financial, and mental health professionals.  Getting credentialed involves several steps and can be challenging if you don’t plan ahead because some requirements take years to complete. 

The requirements to qualify to be a Credentialed Collaborative Professional include:

  • Be a member of CDT for three consecutive years prior to your application;
  • Be licensed and in good standing with your applicable professional certification or licensing board for at least five years prior to submitting your application;
  • Submit proof that you have concluded eight collaborative cases in the three years prior to your application or twenty cases in your career;
  • Have at least three positive professional recommendations solicited by CDT;
  • Have attended Basic Collaborative Training;
  • Within five years of filing your application, you must have attended three of the last five State Bar of Texas Collaborative Law Courses (formerly Spring Conference), attended one in the last 5 years CDT Advanced Training, and attended twenty-five additional hours of collaborative education or training; and
  • You must also submit the application and pay the application fee.

The requirements for qualifying to hold Master Credential status include:

  • Complete the requirements set forth herein above to be credentialed;
  • Submit proof that you have concluded fifty collaborative cases over the course of your career; and
  • Show leadership and significant service to the collaborative community.

Plan Ahead.  It’s critical to begin thinking about and planning for the training and experience requirements several years prior to applying to become Credentialed and/or Master Credentialed.

Collect and Copy Participation Agreements.  One of the more challenging tasks is collecting the proof required to show that you have completed the requisite number of collaborative cases.  To do this, you must submit copies of the signed Participation Agreements of those cases. If you are applying to be Credentialed, you need to go back only three years and eight cases or collect evidence of twenty cases over your career.  However, if you plan to apply to be Master Credentialed, you will need to collect a minimum of fifty executed Participation Agreements of concluded cases which is even more time-consuming.  If you have an office policy of shredding documents after seven years, you may have difficulty locating and copying your old these Participation Agreements.  One way around that hurdle is to contact other professionals who worked on your missing cases and see if they have a copy of the executed Participation Agreement. Each Participation Agreement must include the disqualification provision in order to qualify as one of the required cases.

Twenty-five Additional Hours of Education and/or Trainings Attended.  For attorneys, listing their twenty-five additional hours of education and/or trainings is an easy task because the State Bar of Texas compiles a complete list of all approved education and/or training courses attended by each attorney, including the number of hours, the date(s) attended, and the name of each course.  Financial and mental health professionals will need to reconstruct their training history from accounting records, course records, or contact CDT and ask for help.
Remember, if the education and/or training isn’t collaborative on its face but you believe that you have obtained continuing education or training that directly relates to your collaborative practice but is not labeled specifically as collaborative education or training by the sponsoring organization, please identify the course or program and explain how such program is directly applicable to your collaborative practice in the last column of the table included in the application.

List Contact Information for Professionals.  You must collect names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses for each professional who worked on a completed collaborative case with you in the relevant time period.  As a courtesy, give notice to each collaborative professional listed in your Application that you are submitting an application for credentialing and let them know they may be contacted by CDT staff and/or a CDT committee member for a recommendation. 

Service Requirement.  If you are applying to be endorsed by CDT as being Master Credentialed, you will additionally need to document your leadership and other significant service to the collaborative community at the local, state, national and/or international level.  There are a number of ways you can meet this requirement, including writing blogs for posting on the CDT website, serving as an officer in your local practice group, joining the Board of Trustees of CDT/IACP or serving on one or more of CDT/IACP’s committees, by mentoring young collaborative attorneys, mental health or financial professionals, by presenting at collaborative conferences, by teaching a collaborative training, by presenting seminars to your practice group, or by writing articles for publication in local/statewide/national/international journals.

Complete and Proof the Application.  Once you have collected the required information, you need to complete the credentialing application form.  You will need to add copies of the executed Participation Agreement for each case you are presenting, check the application facts against the credentialing requirements to make certain you meet all the requirements, and then edit the application for spelling and accuracy.  Once you have completed this part: 

Application Fee: Pay your non-refundable application fee here: https://members.collaborativedivorcetexas.com/pay-credentialing-fees-online/ or by check to Collaborative Divorce Texas, c/o Ronda Robinson, 1400 Preston Road, Suite 400, Plano, TX  75093.
Submit Entire Application: The entire Application can be submitted electronically or sent by courier, delivery service or mail  along with the notarized page to Ronda Robinson at Ronda@CollaborativeDivorceTexas.com  OR to Collaborative Divorce Texas, c/o Ronda Robinson, 1400 Preston Road, Suite 400, Plano, TX  75093

Don’t get discouraged, the process is tedious and can seem technical, but it’s worthwhile and will give your collaborative clients confidence in your stills and training.

About Ronda Robinson

Filed Under: Quick Access, xyz-Featured Author

Search for a Professional

Search by:

County

Add Name of County

City

Add Name of City

Last Name

Search By Last Name

Bilingual Professionals

Featured Video

  • Child of Divorce
  • Collaborative Divorce Testimonial
  • Collaborative Divorce

Why Collaborative?

  • Becky Davenport
  • Jody Johnson
  • James Urmin
  • Dr. Honey Sheff
  • Steve Walker
  • Carla Calabrese
  • Dawn Budner
  • Jennifer Leister
  • Camille Scroggins
  • Robert Matlock
  • Natalie Gregg
  • Mickey Gayler
  • Deborah Lyons
  • Carlos Salinas
  • Linda Solomon
  • Richard Soat
  • Lisa Rothfus
  • Jeffrey Shore
  • Barbara Cole
  • David Brunson
  • Syd
  • Susan Z.
  • Cristi Trusler
  • Camille Milner
  • Linda Threats
  • Sarah Keathley
  • MaryAnn Kildebeck
  • David Bouschor
  • Lisa Marquis
  • Harry Munsinger
  • Vicki James
  • Robin Watts
  • Katie Berry
  • Jack Emmott
  • Jennifer Broussard
  • Patricia Havard
  • Paula Locke Smyth
  • Norma Trusch
  • Laura Schlenker
  • Brett Christiansen
  • Tim Whitten
  • Melinda Eitzen
  • Julian Schwartz
  • MaryAnne Knolle
  • Chad Olsen
  • Chris Farish
  • Charles Quaid
  • Anne Shuttee
  • Barbara Runge
  • Rhonda Cleaves
  • Jamie Patterson
  • Catherine Baron
  • Kristen Algert
  • Sandra Roland
  • Rhonda Cleaves 2
  • Gratia Schoemakers

Membership Login



signup now | forgot password?

The Collaborative Law Institute of Texas

d/b/a
Collaborative Divorce Texas

Proud Members of IACP

1400 Preston Road
Suite 400
Plano, TX 75093
(972) 386-0158

Please note: Our office will be closed on

Holiday closures:
Limited: Nov. 23rd & 24th
Closed: Nov. 25th , 26th and 27th

Christmas:
Closed from December 24-December 30, 2022.
Offices open on January 2nd, 2023.

Website Terms of Usage

Contact Our Webmaster

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Vimeo
  • YouTube

Search Our Website

Find A Professional

  • Find a Collaborative Professional
  • Attorneys
  • Financial Professionals
  • Mental Health Professionals
  • See All

…CMT…

Copyright © 2023 · Collaborative Divorce Texas · All Rights Reserved

· · ·

Web Design and Maintenance by The Crouch Group