The Shape of the Breaking.

The Trust Frame field guide for family law. Nine profiles, seven crisis families, the two clocks and the initiator gap, the confidant channel, and the two-client problem no other volume in the series has to solve. Proof reweighted to the after-state: the client eighteen months on.

Field guide

The Trust Frame field guide for family law.

Nine profiles, seven crisis families, the two clocks and the initiator gap, the confidant channel, and the two-client problem no other volume in the series has to solve. Proof reweighted to the after-state: the client eighteen months on.

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  • Field guideIn the Trust Frame Series
  • 19Chapters
  • ISBN979-8-9972568-6-9
  • Desk cardsMay be copied inside your own firm
  • CompanionTo the master text
  • Mosbey MediaPublisher, with Score More Clients

What is inside. The contents, by part.

Part I: The Instrument

  • The Same Door, Different Griefs
  • The Trust Frame in Ten Minutes
  • The Crisis Profile Method
  • The Two Clocks and the Initiator Gap

Part II: The Nine Profiles

  • The Deciding Client
  • The Planning Client
  • The Served Client
  • The Protective Parent
  • The Erased Parent
  • The Protected Client
  • The Money Crisis
  • The Public Face
  • The Post-Decree Client
  • The Multipliers
  • The Confidant Channel

Part III: Running the System

  • The Two-Client Problem
  • The Trail Ledger
  • The Calibration Audit
  • Handing It to Your Agency

Who it is for. And who will read it twice.

Family law firms

Whose homepage is read by both spouses, sometimes in the same week.

Firms with a Quiet Crisis practice

Whose visitors have not decided anything yet and search in stolen minutes.

The firm’s marketer or agency

Part III hands over the instrument.

Where it fits

The book is the method. The engagement is the method, installed.

Everything in this volume is what we build for firms. Read it to understand what the score measures and what the ninety days change; hire it if you would rather it were done for you.

Regulate first. Prove second. Ask last.
The operating principle

Straight answers. About the book.

The one the initiator started, months or years ago, and the statutory one the served client did not. The Deciding Client and the Served Client cannot read the same homepage.

The friend, the sister, the therapist who searches on someone else’s behalf. Chapter 15 is about answering them without making them a client.

Chapter 16, the two-client problem: one docket can hold two families, and your public rooms are graded by both.