Scottsdale divorce mediator explains the process of a collaborative divorce Video Transcript Oliver Ross, Owner of Out-of-Court Solutions: “Collaborative divorce is a process in which each spouse, each party to the divorce, has their own attorney and the attorneys involve accountants if there is substantial amount of assets involved. The attorneys might involve psychologists, if…
It is important to keep yourself centered during a divorce Video Transcript Oliver Ross, Glendale Divorce Mediator: “I would suggest the actions you take are directed towards getting yourself centered while in the midst of the emotions that are so common and normal for people to experience when they’re considering divorce; the anger, the sadness,…
Child Custody and Child Support Mediation by Out-of-Court Solutions Video Transcript Oliver Ross, Mediator at Out-of-Court Solutions: “Hi. I’m Oliver Ross. I’m the founder of Out-of-Court Solutions. And for the past 18 years, I’ve been a full time mediator. Not only more effectively, but also less expensively because child custody, actually, that’s a misnomer now…
During a divorce, decisions regarding the marital home often involve difficult financial and emotional considerations. The divorcing couple must decide whether one person will stay in the home, whether the home will be sold, and, regardless of the disposition, will need to agree on the current fair market value. When the home in question is…
Video Transcript Oliver Ross, Mediator: Hi, I’m Oliver Ross. I’m the founder of Out-of-Court Solutions, and for the past 18 years I’ve been a full time mediator. Spousal support mediation, let me start off by saying that spousal support is one of, if not, the most unpredictable area of the law there is in Arizona…
Video Transcript Oliver Ross, Glendale Mediator: Hi, I’m Oliver Ross. I’m the founder of Out-of-Court Solutions, and for the past 18 years I’ve been a full-time mediator, after practicing law in California for 19 years and gone back then and first got a Masters, then a PhD in Psychology. I’ve mediated many, many divorces and…
Video Transcript Oliver Ross, Out-of-Court Solutions: Hi, I’m Oliver Ross, I’m the founder of Out-of-Court Solutions, and I’ve been mediating in Mesa, Red Mountain and Downtown Mesa, and the surrounding East Valley cities for the last 18 years. My background is in the law business and psychology. I practiced law in California for 19 years…
Video Transcript Oliver Ross, Out-of-Court Solutions: Hi folks, I am Oliver Ross. I am the founder of Out-of-Court Solutions and I’ve been a full-time mediator here in Phoenix for the last 18 years. Before that I practiced law in California for 19 years. I was a trial lawyer and then I went through my own…
Many people assume that a prenuptial agreement is something that only rich people need before getting married. In reality, the benefits of a prenuptial agreement are much broader than that. A prenuptial agreement is an agreement that will break down what will happen to your assets, liabilities and sometimes children after your marriage and in…
Nearly half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce. Based on my many years of experience as a trial lawyer in California and then a family law mediator in Phoenix Arizona, coupled with my psychology background, the likelihood of divorce and its complexity is much greater when a husband or wife has…
Not all divorce mediators have the same education, training, and experience, and thus their mediation “style”, how they conduct the mediation, is likely to be very different. For example, a mediator educated, trained, and experienced as a trial lawyer is apt to conduct him or herself much like a judge, telling the mediating parties who…
By Oliver Ross, JD*, PhD Early on in my career as a mediator it became apparent that grief is endemic to divorce. I realized that sooner or later virtually everyone going through divorce is to a lesser or greater extent bound to experience the stages of grief common to the loss of their marriage: denial,…
