Why Are You And Your Sibling Fighting Over Your Parent's House?
In this model, the lawyer-mental health professional duo creates a safe container for you and your sibling to communicate authentically about what really matters to you.
A Modest Proposal to Mitigate Sexual Harassment and Misconduct in the Workplace
Social and news media bombard us daily with accounts of sexual harassment and misconduct by captains of industry, the arts and politics.
Healing Effects of Mediation on Kids to Achieve and Spread Infinite Positive Outcomes
The article is sums up the infinite reasons/ outcomes that the healing effects of mediation can bring to kids in our society.
The Need for a Paradigm Shift for Transforming Relational Conflict
This paper provides a brief overview of mediation with a focus on clients’ self-determinism in family mediation or family dispute resolution (FDR) and Ontario court-connected alternative dispute resolution (ADR) programs.
Change Is Coming: Tax Reform Act Punishes Divorcing Couples
The new act aims to prevent this “nefarious” practice, often labeled as a divorce subsidy, by rendering alimony payments as after tax income, beginning with the 2019 tax year.
Can this Key Ingredient Protect Your Marriage from Relationship Conflict?
Couples can have big fights, frequent conflict, and even bicker all the time and still have healthy, fulfilling, and lasting relationships. How so?
4 Game-Changing Tips to Build Your Divorce Mediation Practice
Whether you are just opening the doors of your divorce mediation practice, or you have been a professional family mediator for many years, considering these 4 Game Changing Tips with potential clients can be game-changers for developing your more successful mediation practice.
Ask the Judge - Do I need an Attorney's Help to Create a Parenting Plan?
As long as you and your coParent are committed to working together to create a Parenting Plan that’s best for your children, there is no need for extra costs.
Hiring a Divorce Attorney? Buyer Beware
John Keith wrote the following: “It is inherent in our role that we fight other peoples’ battles, but this duty encourages us to identify with our clients and view their battles as our own.”
Family Counseling to Resolve Conflict?
If you are a member of a family, whether it is as father, mother, child, sibling or an extended member, there will be conflict.
Why Gray is My Favorite Color
This article addresses the relationship between mediator neutrality and success in mediation.
End of the Year: The Kids are Alright
End of year. Time to reflect and take stock. Time to recharge and reset.
Tips for Keeping the Kids out of the Conflict
Remembering this simple list may go a long way in helping your child — and you — through rocky waters.
Dear Self-Represented Client
This article explains what a consulting attorney does for divorce mediation clients, and why this review is particularly helpful in developing the self-represented client’s capacity to give informed consent to an agreement that may contain unusual or non-standard terms.
It’s Not Just the Romantic Stuff That Makes a Marriage Special
Romance is far from being everything in marriages that grow and thrive, and it’s certainly not the only thing as couples discover the challenges of everyday living.
Divorce Mediation: A Prototype for Positive Co-Parenting
This article provides an approach to positive co-parenting while enduring a divorce. This involves constructive communication, renovating hostile environments, and having the mediator pose as a role model for a positive co-parenting experience.
In Praise of (Good) Disagreements
As they say, if two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
An Overview of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct in the Context of Mediation
In the spirit of Honest Abe, New York again celebrated Mediation Settlement Day on October 18 this year with a host of activities designed to promote mediation as a means of resolving disputes without going to court.
It Happened in Mediation - Believe It or Not
The authors have peeled back the protective cloak of confidentiality just enough to provide a glimpse of the wild, the unpredictable, and the utterly preposterous things that have happened in real mediations.
Mediation Creates and Spreads Infinite Love
The article is about general foundations and principles of mediation in all aspects (e.g. family, LGBT, divorce, commercial, global, workplace, pet mediation, child custody) as it explores the depth and truth of multi-dimensions in relationships and love.
Family Counseling to Resolve Conflict?
If you are a member of a family, whether it is as father, mother, child, sibling or an extended member, there will be conflict.
What ADR Professionals Can Learn from Litigating Divorce Lawyers
Well over 90% of all divorce cases are resolved by agreements, but there are two divergent methods for negotiating those agreements.
All for One … One for All: Collaborative Process Or Collaborative Lifestyle
In 2007, after twenty-three, war-torn years of litigation, I just knew that there had to be a better way of resolving conflict in people’s lives. Thus began my quest – my journey into the world of alternate dispute resolution.
10 Things to Consider Before Signing a Prenuptial Agreement
So you need to determine things to consider before signing a prenuptial agreement and don’t know where to start?
Using ADR Ideas to Negotiate Divorce Agreements
In negotiating a divorce agreement, it’s important to understand how the spouses negotiated with each other during their marriage.