A Family Mediation Practice Serving

Separating Couples in Southern California 

 
Desert Artist Snake Jagger

Welcome to the California Divorce Peacemaking Blog!

This Blog aims to make information available about California Mediation practices, to introduce you to the Team of professional Mediators who comprise Desert Family Mediation Services (DFMS), and to describe our peacemaking styles and vision. 

We use the word "peacemaking" not to imply some new agey concept but instead to emphasize the core values that mediation uniquely offers: For us the term speaks to a dedicated and focused practice of facilitating resolutions between people who hold opposing views about their otherwise shared history and what those divergent experiences mean in a practical sense to each of them in moving forward in their lives.  

Conflict causes us all to become stuck, and yet conflict offers each of us the opportunity to grow. Peacemaking explores this tension in what is, hopefully, a masterful way and aspires to mid-wife a transition to a richer and more fulfilling future. It is grounded in an acknowledgment and respect for the interdependence that binds us all. 

The members of DFMS believe that the relationships between couples are ground zero for the quality of all our lives, and that on a day to day basis these struggles define our experiences. This connectedness plays out in very important real life ways often involving power, property, money, and children. Our belief is that most family law disputes can be successfully mediated, and that the mediation alternative carries important benefits over traditional Court supervised divorce and domestic partnership dissolutions. At the same time, mediation is not appropriate for everybody. 

Our Peacemaking Blog is new and we are adding information and links regularly. If you have specific legal questions for need more information about any legal topic, try Thurman Arnold's California Family Law Blog and use the website search engine at the top of any page!

Each Partner Holds The Key to the Solution for Themselves and the Other

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We Mediate Divorce, Dissolution, Custody, Support and
Property Division Matters Within the Desert Cities Surrounding Palm Springs, and Within Riverside and San Bernardino Counties

and

the Greater Los Angeles communities of Beverly Hills, Torrance, Santa Monica, and Brentwood!