For Those Feeling Generous: A Gift for Clients, Friends - Book Review
I love this book. It reminds us that we can take family law problems to another level, one not taught in law schools: generosity.
Child Dependency Mediation Update
Mediator Randy Drew discusses the success of their multi-mediator approach.
7 Reasons Why You Should Keep Communicating
Miscommunication plagues divorces in numerous different ways.
Getting a Divorce? Mediate, Don't Litigate.
Getting a divorce? You have options that will allow you to pick the right people to help you do that, but there’s no one size fits all choice.
Interview with Andrew Schepard
This is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with Andrew Schepard, a leading professor, editor and writer of family law and mediation, filmed as part of Mediate.com's 'Views from the Eye of the Storm' Video Series.
Top Ten Ways To Protect Your Kids From The Fallout Of A High Conflict Break-Up
Joan is an author, therapist, mediator, and parenting coordinator with four decades of experience working with high conflict parents who are separating.
Interview with Larry Fong
This is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with Larry Fong, a leading Canadian Family Mediator, filmed as part of Mediate.com's "'Views from the Eye of the Storm' Video Series.
Adult Kids of Divorcees Should Be Spared from the Drama
Many parents do not know how to help their adult children deal with divorce.
Why I wrote “The Generous Prenup: How to Support Your Marriage and Avoid the Pitfalls”
Why I wrote “The Generous Prenup: How to Support Your Marriage and Avoid the Pitfalls”
The Intractability Barrier in Child Dependency
Stories of successfully breaking the intractability barrier in child dependency mediation: Conflict can be dealt with more successfully & less harmfully. (Say it with me.)
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.
Splitting America Redux: Implications for Keeping our Kids Safe
After 911, our lives changed seemingly forever. No longer a safe, secure, innocent society, Americans have come to a tipping point.
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.
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.
Why Gray is My Favorite Color
This article addresses the relationship between mediator neutrality and success in mediation.
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.
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.
Mediation in Domestic Violence Case: Whether to Use or Not to Use? – An Indian Perspective
In this article, I aim to identify two opposite interests associated with the settlement of domestic violence cases, and look at the Indian law to see how those two interests are equitably balanced, therefore, providing a recommended way forward, not necessarily a perfect one, to handle cases related to domestic violence.
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?
Educating the Next Generation in Conflict Resolution: A Review of "Trouble at the Watering Hole: The Adventures of Emo and Chickie" - Book Review
This article includes reviews by Dan Shapiro, Director, Harvard Law School, International Negotiation Program, and other notables, including Bill Ury and the Dalai Lama, of the children's book Educating the Next Generation in Conflict Resolution: A Review of "Trouble at the Watering Hole: The Adventures of Emo and Chickie" by Gregg Relyea and Joshua Weiss.
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.
Mediate.com Helps Divorcing Couples Resolve and Learn From Conflicts
Founded more than 20 years ago as a vehicle to connect professional mediators with individuals who need dispute resolution services, Mediate.com today presents more than 15,000 articles and top-tier resources for its 5 million annual visitors.
Children, Divorce, and Dating
In my role as a counselor for children of divorce, my focus is the children. The question about dating arises in every session of “Co-parenting Through Your Divorce” that I facilitate. This article addresses this question for parents of divorce and for those who are dating others who are divorced with children.