Category: Family

The Internet is changing the way divorce mediation is practiced and experienced. The Internet is becoming an ever more integral...

This article is courtesy of HR.com, a website committed to making the lives of HR professionals and business managers easier.How...

Perhaps it is surprising, but most of the time families struggle through the process of dividing up personal property following...

The mediations that I handle involve existing relationships rather than one-time contracts or situations. I mediate employee complaints for a...

First published in the "Elder's Advisor, The Journal of Elder Law and Post-Retirement Planning."How much better would this world be...

Death is becoming a big topic now that baby boomers are being whipsawed by their own growing sense of mortality...

Excerpted from Between Love And Hate: A Guide To Civilized Divorce By Lois Gold, M.S.W. (Penguin USA 1996) Order at...

A modified version of this paper has been published by the Texas Wesleyan Law Review. Gay G. Cox & Robert...

As the Collaborative Family Law model moves into its second decade of expansion, we can observe how far it has...

How could a mediator be neutral about your situation when you are getting divorced? Surely one of you is right...

A recent Time magazine article asked “Does Divorce Hurt Kids?” and presented the conclusions from the two longest term studies...

The following article was first published in the “Elder Law Attorney” the official publication of the New York State Bar...

Many experienced family and divorce mediators are familiar with the term "Get" and are aware of its relevance when a...

A little over a year ago, I was boarding a flight from New Orleans to Dallas/Fort Worth. Sometimes I'm a...

Reprinted with permission from ADR Report, Volume 5, Number 6, pages 11-14. Copyright by Pike and Fisher, Inc.Here's a potential...

Sarah and Beth have lived together for seven years. They intended to live happily ever after, But as too often...

This article was first published in Divorce Magazine, Winter 2001. “I’ll consider not proceeding with the divorce if my spouse...

INTRODUCTION The American family has undergone many changes in the last century. Some indicators of the changes are occurrences such...

As humans, we are symbol-making creatures. Our uniqueness (perhaps along with other primates) is in our symbolic use of language....

The full document is available in pdf format. Model Court Protocol for Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Screening in Matters...

I. CITIZEN-TO-CITIZEN DISPUTES Alternative dispute resolution is traditionally defined as resolving disputes peacefully by means other than going to court....

See the Foreward to the Model Standards These standards of family mediation practice have been adopted by the Association of...

The Model Standards of Practice for Family and Divorce Mediation ("Model Standards") are the family mediation community’s definition of the...

Nearly ten years ago when Marlene first met Liz, their future as a couple seemed so bright. They shared a...

Collaborative law is a new way to resolve disputes by removing the disputed matter from the litigious court room setting...

As private mediation becomes an accepted method of resolving the issues presented in a divorce, increasing numbers of clients are...

Anger is a normal feeling to have during a divorce. In fact, if you didn’t feel angry there would probably...

High profile episodes of school violence such as those in Littleton, Colorado, Paducah, Kentucky and Springfield, Oregon, have increased the...

Excerpted from Between Love And Hate: A Guide To Civilized Divorce By Lois Gold, M.S.W. (Penguin USA 1996) Order at...

Excerpted from Between Love And Hate: A Guide To Civilized Divorce By Lois Gold, M.S.W. (Penguin USA 1996) Order at...