March 01, 2014
Just Another Day in Family Court
I exclusively practice mediation and Collaborative Practice and so I am rarely in court. Never being in court makes it easy for me to recollect...
I exclusively practice mediation and Collaborative Practice and so I am rarely in court. Never being in court makes it easy for me to recollect...
During this time of year we are all invited, one way or another, to think about who we are and how we relate to others. ...
Grieving is a deeply personal experience, but one can still recognize some commonalities running through most people’s grieving process. One way of looking at it...
Mediation has lots of positives: you and the other person together control the outcome, your values can be discussed as part of the picture, and...
It’s not uncommon for people to contact my office requesting that I “represent them and their spouse” in mediation. Inevitably, a vision of having to...
As of January 1, 2013, all family courts in California are required to practice case management and oversight, echoing the system used for years in...
A few years ago, the California Supreme Court wrote a scathing analysis of the state of the family court system. It noted that the large...
Speak Respectfully Listen Carefully Just Say It Remember Your Values In the interest-based model of mediation the concepts of who is right and what is...
We often think of mediation as an environment in which the mediator is a preternaturally peaceful person and the clients are kind to each other...
It’s commonplace for one of my clients to say to another, “You should be sorry, you should tell me you’re sorry for what’s happening.” And...
Unmani is exceptionally gifted at mediating difficult situations. At critical moments when the dialogues seemed about to derail, Unmani masterfully steered us back on course. Her calming influence, insights on the legal requirements, and laser focus on the relevant issues very positively influenced the outcome of our divorce settlement and subsequent mediation qualitatively and quantitatively. In fact, my ex-wife and I would not have the solid, congenial co-parenting relationship we have today without key conversations—including very difficult ones—we had only because it was safe to have them with Unmani present.