{2:54 minutes to read} I recently met with a couple who wanted to hear about my divorce mediation services. During the meeting Maria*, the wife, related how she had decided a year earlier that the [...]
{2:54 minutes to read} I often work with couples where one of them has had an affair. When this is the case, it is common for the other spouse to feel hurt and angry. In [...]
{3:48 minutes to read} I was working with a couple recently that was having a great deal of difficulty agreeing on how to modify their existing parenting plan. It happens frequently with parents who have [...]
{2.9 mins to read} I have often heard mediators say that they recommend that their clients each see a “mediation friendly” attorney for legal advice either during or after the mediation process. But I do [...]
My last blog post, which discussed why I believe having one lawyer helping a couple to obtain a divorce is better than two, generated a lot of comments. Many of those comments caused me to [...]
In my last blog post I suggested that sending mediation clients off to separate attorneys was not being helpful. In response to this proposition one reader, an attorney and mediator from California, suggested that I [...]
Bob* and Mary* were about halfway through their first mediation session when Bob announced that he was never going to leave the house. He did not want the divorce and did not feel it fair [...]
As I have said before, I believe that couples who are seeking a legal separation or a divorce do not have a legal problem; rather, I believe they have a practical problem that has legal [...]
Many divorce lawyers, as well as divorce mediators, did not agree with my suggestion in a recent blog post that a couple be allowed to obtain an uncontested divorce without court approval (Judicial “Approval” of [...]
Hal and Sheree had been dating for several years when they decided to get married. Neither had been married before, and they did not have any children, although they agreed they would like to someday. [...]
