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Mediation
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Family Law Prof Blog
Case Law Development: Enforceability of Agreements Drafted During Mediation and Admissibility of Mediator Testimony
By Family Law
In a case that family court mediators in many jurisdictions might find surprising, the Tennessee Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court's enforcement of a handwritten agreement prepared during divorce…
California Employment Law Update
Summaries Of Priests’ Personnel Files Prepared For Mediation Were Confidential And Could Not Be Disclosed
By Tony Oncidi
Doe 1 v. Superior Court (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles), 132 Cal. App. 4th 1160 (2005) Petitioners in this case, 26 Roman Catholic priests, filed this action to prevent…
ContractsProf Blog
Drafting Dispute Resolution Clauses
Once upon a time, dispute resolution clauses in contracts used specified arbitration. Then folks started to add a mediation component that the parties had to go through before arbitration could…
Florida Probate & Trust Litigation Blog
Divided Families: Civil Disengagement Instead of War
Mediated settlement agreements are the norm in Florida when in comes to probate litigation. An excellent resource for thoughtful articles on why probate mediation has "taken off" over the last…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
“Civil Disengagement”
In a recent newsletter, Gerald Le Van, a strong proponent of family wealth mediation, introduces the concept of "civil disengagement" as an alternative to financially and emotionally costly litigation when…
New Jersey Law Blog
Uniform Mediation Act
The New Jersey Uniform Mediation Act was signed into law and became immediately effective November 22, 2004. Since persons often attempt to resolve their divorce issues through voluntary or Court…
Cam Law
Mediation and Healing
Mediation is a healing path: it moves parties to reconcile their differences in an atmosphere that, ideally, improves their connectedness, bridges their separate objectives, and integrates rather than fragmenting through…