Sentences with phrase «contentious process»

Divorce Mediation and Collaborative Divorce were highlighted as alternatives to the more contentious process of divorce in today's courts.

Because mediation is a less contentious process than a courtroom divorce, couples without young children find their way into mediation as the process focuses on negotiation.

Re-drawing constituency boundaries is a long contentious process and is susceptible to efforts to gerrymander the outcome (to seek unfair advantage from fixing precisely where the boundaries are replaced).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Court of Appeals nominee was approved in the New York State Senate on a voice vote, after an unusually contentious process.

With that guaranteed cut, the union would oversee the tricky and often contentious process of setting raises and also would manage teachers» health - care benefits.

Assessment of well - being for any species is an imprecise and contentious process at best.

The cooperative spirit of the mediation process alleviates a great deal of the stress that is common in standard divorces — whether you are on the sending or receiving end of such contentious processes as serving or being served and building a case or defending against one.

For example, a sidechain based on the transaction anonymity project Mimblewimble could allow for experimentation in that area that avoids the long and potentially contentious process of making changes to the bitcoin software.

But, he says, «it would result in a less contentious process.»

Uber's massive, multi-pronged deal with SoftBank has officially closed, ending a contentious process that will make the Japanese conglomerate the largest single shareholder in Uber and usher in sweeping changes to Uber's governance.

In a leveraged buyout attempt that has turned into a long and contentious process, Michael Dell and his investment partners have upped their bid to take the company he founded private to $ 24.6 billion.

Undoubtedly, this will all be a long and contentious process, with the likelihood of many legal battles along the way.

From 1985 until 1994, tribunals in the United States used the contentious process in an average of forty thousand marriage - annulment cases a year.

This has of course been a contentious process.

The Working Families Party, which endorsed Cuomo in last year's election after a contentious process, only to feud with him publically later, issued a Sunday statement praising the proposal a a first step but pushing for a $ 15 minimum wage.

And even if Congress does manage to introduce last - minute legislation, as many observers expect, the sequester will have cast a shadow over the contentious process of funding science in a time of fiscal constraints — and in an election year.

But if the US goes down this road, the result will only be a long and contentious process of negotiation.

After a long and contentious process, a digital standard in the U.S. has finally emerged.

Process: Setting standards is a contentious process.

«We're very excited about the gains some of our schools made,» said Superintendent Dan McMinimee, hired this year by the school board's conservative majority in a contentious process.

Trying to get him the help he needed for his dyslexia was turning into a long and contentious process.

The plan, as described by senior state officials to Hakim, is to proceed only in the deeper parts of the Marcellus Shale, the subterranean rock formation that holds vast amounts of gas, and only in communities that support gas drilling — which would unavoidably involve the productive but contentious process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of the shale layers deep underground.

This can be an upsetting and contentious process.

E-Discovery has been a contentious process ever since business records went digital, but the complications in handling digital records really became clear in 2004, when U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin wrote a series of influential opinions in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg.

Divorce has a reputation for being a long, arduous and contentious process that pits both spouses against each other in a vicious, no - holds - barred court fight to determine everything including division of assets, spousal maintenance, parenting time, and child support.

While congressional efforts to improve the Copyright Act... may be a welcome and beneficial development, it will almost certainly be a long and contentious process... Register Pallante... [has] not [ed] generally that «Congress has moved slowly in the copyright space.»

The Newport Beach family law firm, founded by attorney - mediator Lani Baron, has doubled in size as a response to an increasing number of individuals and families in the area looking to avoid the contentious process of...

Most important for Baron, is protecting children from the contentious process of divorce.