As those who have turned to
adversarial legal proceedings will tell you, you will literally have no control over those proceedings.
Just as you would want the best divorce lawyer to represent you were you to turn to
adversarial legal proceedings, you want the best divorce mediator to assist you if you turn to mediation.
Not exact matches
In 2006, the American Bar Association house of delegates unanimously approved a report calling for a national civil Gideon to «provide
legal counsel as a matter of right at public expense to low - income persons in those categories of
adversarial proceedings where basic human needs are at stake, such as those involving shelter, sustenance, safety, health or child custody.»
Internal reports are not generally privileged if they do not contain
legal advice and are simply the result of a fact finding exercise with no
adversarial proceedings in contemplation.
Formal inquiries are
adversarial proceedings which place great demands on members of hearing panels who may need
legal expertise to assist in their duties.
Nevertheless, your common sense is enough to tell you that it makes far better sense to attempt to keep those painful feelings in check rather than to give them free reign, which is what always happens when divorcing spouses turn to
adversarial divorce
proceedings and engage in
legal warfare.
Will you drag the children through a custody battle or can both parents agree to resolve differences in a less
adversarial legal process like collaborative divorce
proceedings?