In Buckley v. Shealy, the appellate court decided to not to enforce a mediated divorce settlement, when the agreement is over a decade old and was never submitted to the court.
Buckley v. Shealy, 635 S.E.2d 76 (S.C. 2006) affirmed the decision of the trail court to not enforce a mediated divorce settlement last seen at the mediator’s office in 1997 (10 years old), where it is unclear what happened to the signed agreement, and the family court never entered a signed copy of the agreement in the record.
For the past decade, as part of the annual Minnesota State Bar Association ADR Institute, Hamline Professor James Coben has been producing short videos illustrating mediation litigation. Mediate.com is proud to now assist in the further distribution of these exceptional teaching and learning resources.
This enactment may portray “less than optimal” mediator performance. Rest assured that you are not at risk by hiring any of the ADR Institute Players as neutrals (or lawyers), despite what you see on the tape. The videos are fictional reenactments of the mediations underlying the published litigated cases.
Problems matter. My starting assumption for this article is that the work we do is largely defined by the problems we face. To put it crudely, there's a world of...
By Michael JacobsJAMS ADR Blog by Chris PooleFor both plaintiffs and defendants, class action litigation is time-intensive, costly and requires close oversight from start to finish. As a result, parties are increasingly...
By Chris PooleThis is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with Lisa Parkinson, family mediation leader in the UK and Europe, filmed as part of Mediate.com's "The Mediators: Views from the Eye...
By Lisa Parkinson
