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…
Divorce Mediation Arizona – Scottsdale – Phoenix – Valleywide – Tucson Youtube Video Video Transcription 00:05 “The McMahon Group: Welcome back to The McMahon Group everyone. Well, you know, breaking up is sometimes very hard to do, and if you or someone you know is going through a divorce, there are some options out there…
The prospect of signing a legally-binding divorce settlement agreement in the midst of such the unusually high emotions attendant to divorce or legal separation is likely to be a daunting one. However, the mediators at Out-of-Court Solutions® provide clients in the Phoenix, Scottsdale, Chandler, Glendale, and Valley-wide with options and alternatives, as well as the…
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…
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…
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…
