Not exact matches
By guiding, informing, and coordinating alternative options for parents, educators, health and human service professionals, faith - based counselors, legislators, and the public at - large, CRC is able to help reduce divorce and strengthen families through
custody reform; parental
mediation and training; conciliation and access; parental financial and educational support
systems; legislative revision and court briefs.
Mediation of family disputes including divorce, separation, parenting plans, child support, child
custody and other high conflict family
systems.
Senft, Louise Phipps (1996 — 2015), Conflict Transformation and
Mediation Skills Manual for Domestic Disputes with a focus on Working with Family
Systems, Child
Custody, Parenting Plans, Domestic Violence and Child Support Training Manual, early editions with Nancy Good
Understand that
custody issues can be resolved privately and informally with no court intervention in
mediation, or the issue can be litigated in the court
system.
Washington law and the Washington court
system encourage spouses to attend
mediation, which involves a neutral third party who helps the spouses resolve their differences regarding child
custody, spousal support or other issues so that they can reach agreement.
This is a confidential, voluntary procedure that is a form of child
custody mediation (or «evaluative
mediation»), which occurs outside of the court
system.
By guiding, informing, and coordinating alternative options for parents, educators, health and human service professionals, faith - based counselors, legislators, and the public at - large, CRC is able to help reduce divorce and strengthen families through
custody reform; parental
mediation and training; conciliation and access; parental financial and educational support
systems; legislative revision and court briefs.
When mediated cases went through and did not re-enter the legal
system, mandatory
mediation became the norm for
custody disputes.
Not only as a clinical psychologist who has seen over 10,000 families in conflict and pain over the past 43 years, or as a child
custody mediator who has completed over 5,000
mediations over the past 38 years, but as an observer of human interactions
systems over my life - time.
Saposnek, D.T. (1983a) «Strategies in Child
Custody Mediation: A Family
Systems Approach,» in J. A. Lemmon, (Ed.)
The use of
custody evaluations, overshadowed by the advent of
mediation, was re-emerging as
custody disputes were becoming more complex and high conflict families were challenging the capacity of the court
system.
In addition to the success that
mediation has had as a substitute to the court
system, court - ordered
mediation before hearings on
custody and visitation disputes has proven to be a successful complement to litigation as well.
Strategies in child
custody mediation: A family
systems approach.
In describing DV as «a dynamic between parents» (p. 8), and making statements such as when «parents are entangled in an abusive relationship» (p. 12), «when there is violence at home» (p. 8), and «violence or abuse in the parents» relationship» (p. 9), rather than discussing abusers who batter their partners, most mental health professionals doing
custody evaluations,
mediation or otherwise involved in
custody disputes, who have been schooled in the family
systems dynamic, will continue to see the problem as involving the dysfunction of both parents.