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As a child and adolescent therapist and a mediator, I have worked with many families of divorce. Though each family’s experience is different, a common thread is that the higher the conflict and acrimony between the parents, the greater that child’s distress and difficulty coping with an already difficult situation. At Out of Court Solutions in…
For clients considering a “do-it-yourself” divorce, the option of using a document preparation company that offers as-need mediation gives divorcing couples the benefits of keeping costs low, making sure that every legal, financial, and tax matter is covered, and having the availability of a legally-trained mediator to clear up any misunderstandings or disagreements. One could imagine…
Unlike attorneys who want to control and judges who are too busy to listen, in mediation divorcing couples retain control of all decision making and get to speak and be heard. This is one of the reasons why all of the mediators with Out-of-Court Solutions’ Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tucson, and other Arizona locations have advanced degrees…
For clients considering self-representation during a divorce, the option of mediation offers the benefit of working with a legally-trained practitioner who possesses a wide array of knowledge and skills. For example, mediators provide clients with all of the relevant legal, financial and tax information necessary to make fully informed decisions. During a divorce, this knowledge is crucial…
Divorce mediation ensures that clients determine the pace that is appropriate for their particular situation. For some clients, this means moving through the mediation process quickly and efficiently. Other clients may require a different pace, in order to manage the range of emotions that are typically associated with the divorce process – anger, sadness and…
Following a divorce involving minor children, continued amicable communication between parents is essential for the best interest of the children. For this reason alone, mediation has benefits that extend beyond the communication surrounding the initial divorce. For example, according to many former Arizona clients in Chandler, Scottsdale, Glendale, Tucson, and other cities throughout the Phoenix metropolitan…
Having mediated over 1500 divorces in Read more about divorce mediation Phoenix, Scottsdale, Chandler and other cities in the Phoenix metropolitan area, it’s my experience that many divorcing who have substantial assets mistakenly believe that their case is too complex for mediation. However, the truth is quite the opposite: when a mediator has extensive backgrounds…
In Arizona as in many other states, spousal maintenance (aka, alimony) is one of the most unpredictable areas of the law. It is for that reason that all of our mediators – in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Glendale, Chandler, Tucson and all of our other offices – call it a “lightning rod” issue, having the potential to…
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 – including children of divorce – is bound to experience the stages of grieve common to the loss of marriage: denial, anger, sadness, bargaining, and acceptance. This…
Why do so many celebrities like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, and Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegran mediate their divorce? The answer is simple: their managers tell them that in addition to being private, mediation will save them a lot of time, money and aggravation by avoiding adversarial lawyers and…