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Executives, professionals, business owners, and adults navigating a complex divorce or persistent post-separation conflict. All genders are welcome. You do not need a particular net worth; the right fit depends on the support you need.

No. A focused session can help you organize your personal priorities and the questions you want to ask qualified professionals. The decision whether to separate or divorce remains yours.

We spend 15 minutes discussing your goals, location, and the kind of support you are looking for. It is a fit conversation, not a coaching session or document review. If there is a match, you receive next steps and a clear scope before enrolling.

Use the inquiry form to prepare an email to info@highstakesdivorcecoaching.com. Your email app opens so you can review and send it yourself. No email is sent automatically, and no appointment is confirmed until you receive a response.

Your attorney advises you on legal rights, strategy, documents, negotiations, and court proceedings. Coaching helps you organize practical priorities, prepare questions, practice ordinary communication, and follow through between professional appointments.

No. Coaching focuses on practical goals, preparation, and action. It does not diagnose or treat mental-health conditions or trauma. A therapist or other qualified professional may be an important part of your support team.

We can practice ordinary scheduling and logistical communication, clarify personal boundaries, and organize questions for counsel. Coaching cannot interpret court orders, change another person’s behavior, make custody recommendations, or replace support from a qualified safety professional.

I can help you organize information, prepare a meeting agenda, and identify questions for your attorney. Legal advice, calculations, relocation requests, custody strategy, and court documents belong with qualified counsel.

Yes, through general education about concepts such as RSUs, options, vesting, and liquidity, plus organization of your compensation records. Recommendations about buying, selling, exercising, taxes, valuation, or marital property division require the appropriate licensed professionals.

We organize the income, expenses, cash balances, and assumptions you provide into a practical household budget and cash-flow worksheet. Investment, tax, retirement, and settlement-sufficiency judgments remain with qualified professionals.

The eight-week Career & Compensation Relaunch program includes role targeting, resume and LinkedIn feedback, a networking plan, interview practice, and compensation-discussion preparation. It is a defined coaching program, not recruiting or a guarantee of a job or salary.

Private Client Advisory includes a limited coordination allowance for professional-team meetings. MSA Negotiation Coaching and the Complete MSA Coaching Package include separately defined support blocks for permitted private mediation or settlement meetings, or scheduled one-to-one preparation/debrief. Participation requires the relevant permissions and an agreed nonlegal role. Ask counsel and the mediator what can be shared and how attendance may affect confidentiality or privilege. The coach never negotiates or speaks for you.

No. This practice supports one adult in a family dispute and does not coach both spouses individually. A conflict check takes place before an engagement is accepted.

Nationwide inquiries are welcome. Availability is confirmed before enrollment based on where you are located and the services requested. The California business location does not make California divorce law apply to every client.

No. The listed communities are areas of focus, not a required address or an exclusion list. Clients from other locations may inquire, subject to the same scope and eligibility review.

Information is handled according to the service agreement, privacy policy, and legal obligations. Coaching does not automatically create attorney-client privilege, and records may be subject to lawful disclosure. Please keep sensitive case details out of the initial inquiry.

Choose an Intensive for one focused starting point, Navigation for weekly structure and one defined project, or Private Client for more preparation and coordination. Career Relaunch is a separate eight-week program. The fit call helps clarify which scope matches your needs. For a specific Marital Settlement Agreement discussion, choose MSA Questions & Preparation, MSA Negotiation Coaching, or the combined MSA package.

No. Four weeks means one 28-day service period beginning on your agreed start date, not a calendar month. A full year can contain 13 four-week periods. Each cycle is booked separately; there is no automatic renewal or required three-month commitment. Package fees cover the defined appointments and deliverables within the stated total and component time limits.

No. Each offer specifies the number of consolidated requests and total coach time included. Navigation and Career Relaunch responses are within two business days; Private Client responses are by the next business day, excluding announced closures. Extra work needs prior approval.

Appointments are available Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific Time, subject to availability and announced closures. Pacific Time observes daylight saving time. This is not an emergency or round-the-clock service.

The proposed policy allows rescheduling with at least 24 hours’ notice and one late-reschedule grace per package cycle. Cancellation includes an accounting of earned and unearned fees. Final terms, including any scheduling extension and refund timing, are provided in the agreement before enrollment.

The commitment is to the services, preparation, and deliverables in your agreement. No coach can guarantee a court outcome, a job, investment returns, lower legal fees, or a change in another person’s behavior.

Yes. Executive Clarity Intensive includes a maximum of two total coach hours. Executive Divorce Navigation includes eight hours per 28 days, and Private Client Advisory includes 14 hours per 28 days. Career & Compensation Relaunch includes 12 hours across eight weeks. Total coach time includes live appointments, preparation, notes, reading and responding to messages, review, project work, and any included coordination. Component limits apply; the full allowance cannot automatically be used for live sessions. MSA Questions & Preparation includes three total hours in 14 days; MSA Negotiation Coaching includes eight in 28 days; the Complete MSA Coaching Package includes 11 across six weeks.

We notify you when a messaging or off-call allowance is approximately 80% used. Work in that category pauses at the limit unless you approve a written estimate and spending cap. Additional off-call work is $450/hour in 15-minute increments ($112.50), and an extra 60-minute coaching appointment is $650, including up to 15 minutes of preparation and notes. Included work is not billed twice. Unused-service and scheduling-extension terms are confirmed in your agreement before enrollment.

Prepare for the agreement—and the everyday life that follows. I help you organize practical questions about responsibilities, timing, communication, records, and follow-through, so you can bring clearer concerns to your attorney or mediator. The aim is to identify common sources of future misunderstanding, without promising that every conflict can be prevented. Choose preparation only, support during negotiations, or the combined package. The work produces questions and planning tools, not agreement language or legal review.

Coaching is available to represented and unrepresented adults after location, scope, and conflict screening. Your attorney advises on legal rights, terms, and consequences. A mediator facilitates negotiations neutrally and is not automatically your legal adviser. Deserae supports one adult with practical preparation and communication; she does not negotiate or speak for you, recommend settlement terms or concessions, draft or revise an MSA, interpret clauses, assess fairness or enforceability, or advise whether to sign. If you are unrepresented, seek independent legal review, including limited-scope review if appropriate, before signing.

Attendance is available only at private mediation or settlement meetings where the facilitator, counsel where applicable, and all required participants permit the coach’s limited role. Agree on confidentiality and participation before sharing information. The coach may listen, keep permitted logistical notes, and help you organize questions during agreed breaks; she does not address the other side, transmit offers, or act as mediator or representative. Court appearances and court-connected custody mediation are excluded. If attendance is not permitted or not wanted, the same 180-minute allocation can be used for scheduled one-to-one preparation/debrief by agreement, with no extra hours. There is no guaranteed access to any meeting.

No. I work from your own factual notes, priorities, and practical questions. I do not review agreement text, identify missing legal protections, draft clauses, recommend concessions, assess whether the agreement is fair, or advise you to sign. Those questions go to your qualified legal adviser.

Questions & Preparation is $1,750 with a maximum of three total coach hours in a 14-day window. Negotiation Coaching is $3,750 with a maximum of eight hours in 28 days. The Complete MSA Coaching Package is $5,000 with a maximum of 11 hours across six weeks (42 days). All preparation, messages, notes, and included written work count. The combined offer includes the same three-hour preparation and eight-hour support components; it does not continue until settlement or signature.

We notify you when an off-call allowance is approximately 80% used. Work in that category pauses at the limit unless you approve a written estimate and spending cap. Additional off-call work is $450/hour in 15-minute increments ($112.50). An additional scheduled 60-minute coaching or meeting-support block is $650. Extra meeting time is not automatically added when negotiations run long. Any unused-service, extension, rescheduling, and cancellation arrangements are explained in the signed agreement before enrollment. MSA practical-question preparation can be selected as the single focused project in Executive Divorce Navigation, or as a project within Private Client Advisory, using those packages’ existing time limits. Neither core package automatically includes these separate MSA offers or the three-hour negotiation-support allocation. Agree on which engagement covers each task; overlapping work is never billed twice.