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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.
Bargaining in the Light of the Law: The Case of Divorce
By now, in 2017, divorce law has become clear and often even predictable.
Co-Parenting
There are many threatening and frightening things that happen to individuals whose relationship ends up in separation or divorce. A successful divorce is one in which the parents divorce each other but do not require the child to divorce one of the parents.
Divorce Lawyers: 5 Little Known Things You Need To Know
There is an inescapable fact: the relationship between a divorce attorney and a client is, at best, a business relationship.
Massachusetts Divorce: How Long Does it Take?
Let us imagine a couple in agreement on pursuing the quickest possible Massachusetts divorce.
Marriage, Dystopian Society--A Story about conflict prevention
This article envisions what it would take, a century in the future, to create a society without any marital strife.
How to Mediate a Prenuptial Agreement
Marriages can be damaged by a destructive prenup or by a harsh prenup negotiation process.
Interview with Carl Schneider
This is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with Carl Schneider, a psychologist and divorce mediation pioneer, filmed as part of Mediate.com's "'Views from the Eye of the Storm' Video Series.
Save a Marriage through Mediation
This is the true story of a couple that considered divorce, but decided to stay together after drafting a postmarital agreement regarding the parenting of their young son.
Interview with Peter Salem
This is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with Peter Salem, Executive Director of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), filmed as part of Mediate.com's'Views from the Eye of the Storm' Video Series.
Need Help Getting Your Spouse to the Negotiating Table?
What happens when you want to use mediation for divorce, but your spouse doesn’t? It’s a fairly common situation but not a hopeless one — so don’t give up before trying some tried and true strategies to bring them onboard.
Nesting a New Co-Parenting Arrangement
Divorce is a hard process and perhaps nobody knows this better than the children of divorced parents, who can find themselves caught up in a situation over which they have little control facing an uncertain future.
Interview with Marilyn McKnight
Interview with Marilyn McKnight, former President of the AFM and ACR, filmed as part of our Views from the Eye of the Storm Series.
Can You Use a Mediator in an Uncontested Divorce?
If you and your spouse are unable to reach agreement in mediation, you still have the option of going to court.