Blog Posts in 2011
Posted on Oct 10, 2011 By Thurman W. Arnold, III, Family Law Mediator
DFMS Is Now (Almost) 18 Months Old ! I want to compliment and honor those of you who have seen the terrible destruction and waste that is characteristic of family court litigation, and who have been ...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2011 By Thurman Arnold, III, CFLS
Litigation Is The Default Strategy For Adjudicating Conflict Some people believe that mediators don't hold the American legal system or the judges who play their role within it in high regard. That ...
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Posted on May 8, 2011 By T.W. Arnold, III, CFLS
What Marriage of Davenport Means for Mediation Family law mediators and collaborative attorneys, and those attorneys who decry the shameless lack of ethics on the part of some high conflict divorce ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2011 By Thurman Arnold
"Mediation Intensive Training" at Green Gulch - the 2011 Redoux! Together with Bev Jewell, a mental health professional with whom I have co-mediated cases at my mediation center in Palm ...
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Posted on Feb 12, 2011 By Desert Family Mediation Services
Q. My husband and I are planning a divorce. We read some of your blogs about mediation thank you for making so much information available. We have pretty much agreed how to divide our property. ...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2011 By Desert Family Mediation Services
As is to be expected, people in the midst of relationship transition are experiencing a deep range of emotions that include varying levels of personal distress. For some these are manageable when ...
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Posted on Jan 1, 2011 By Desert Family Mediation Services
While we wouldn't say that co-mediating your dissolution or custody matter is necessarily superior to engaging a sole mediator, we find that there are benefits to co-mediation that particularly assist ...
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