ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
GUIDING YOU THROUGH ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
At Smollon Law, our lawyers are trained in alternative dispute resolution practices. These are constructive ways of resolving family issues such as divorce, separation agreements, child custody and marital property division.
Our job as your attorney in alternative dispute resolution is to help you settle the case in a productive and satisfactory manner; however, if ADR blows up we will then prepare you to move forward with litigation and aggressively pursue your goals.
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Alternative Dispute Resolution Services
In traditional litigation, people dig into entrenched positions and don’t give up those positions willingly. It is by its very nature adversarial and costly. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) provides methods for solving family law issues.
Throughout ADR methods:
- One or both sides are represented by attorneys who advise them about the law.
- The participants — the parties and their attorneys — agree to work together in good faith to try to find an amicable resolution that satisfies both sides.
The attorney sometimes enlists the help of specialists such as financial advisors, vocational experts, child specialists, mental health professionals, and divorce coaches to help the parties resolve specific issues.
- During mediation, both sides can share information and freely discuss issues, knowing that what they say can’t be used against them in court.
- These approaches empower you as a party to find common ground and problem solve with the other party rather than construct barricades and rigid positions.
ADR provides you and your counsel to work with the other side to construct a resolution of your case which is typically more creative and specially tailored to your family’s unique circumstances than the resolution determined by the Court.
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