Blog Posts in January, 2011

Deciding If Divorce Mediation Is The Right Choice

Since I’ve done mediation for many years, I have seen three major times when mediation doesn’t work well. The first of those is when one or both parties come into the mediation with a hard and fast position from which they will not move. Mediation is built upon compromise, upon cooperation, upon give and take. If there isn’t that give and take, mediation may not be the best choice. The second time ...

Top 5 Questions About Divorce - Part 2

Read Part 1 of this article by clicking here. The third question that I get is about Community Property . People have heard generally that California is a Community Property state but they don’t really understand what that means. And basically what that means is that from the date of marriage till the date of separation anything that was earned or acquired is community property. Any debt that was ...

Divorce Mediation - the Basics

Many people don’t realize they have choices when they think about filing for divorce. Of course, everyone knows about the litigated model, each person getting an attorney, cooperating or not, having discovery, asking for financial information, filing interim motions, going into court, really a very protracted, long process in most cases. However, at the opposite end of that spectrum is mediation. ...