Cases of this type settle more
often than they go to court, but the settlement often does not occur until after expert reports are submitted and the experts on both sides are deposed.
Not exact matches
Her forehand shots, which are so powerful they seem
to come off a man's racket rather
than that of a frail - looking Devonshire lass,
went into the net about as
often as into her opponent's
court.
Receivable from sale of assets and technology: $ 3.313 M (no adjustment; these items were purchased by a company and they
often pay, in addition, this amount is worth
going to court over and easier
to receive a judgment from
than general receivables).
Without criticizing those who had
gone before within the
Court (and who
often lacked the training, time, experience and resources), it became obvious that truly valuable judicial education required far more time and resources
than we had ever been able
to put into it.»
Mediation is
often more successful, less expensive and less stressful
than going to court and that is why we are committed
to making sure more people use it.
Often a settlement will result in a higher payout
than you would have otherwise received by
going to court due
to the high cost of litigation.
I do not seek
to disparage the mediation process, which I very much favour, but
often the underlying message
to claimants is «accept less
than you are due because it is too much pain, expense and trouble
to go through the
courts».
(Though I do not promote or agree with this family
court incentive
to the «local community» for various reasons, one of which it
goes to promote training that is for an agenda that is more
than often used as a brainwashing of the judiciary and family
court personnel in some skewed social engineering for power and more incentive funding scheme that results in process with negative results.)
There are several reasons: (a) it's less adversarial
than going to court; (b) it's more private; (c) you retain control of the process — i.e., you are not bound by what the mediator thinks (indeed, most mediators see their role as helping the parties effectuate their goals, not imposing the mediator's ideas); (d) it's usually much less expensive; (e) if there are children involved, the process is less likely
to embroil them in a painful conflict; and (f) mediation
often gives divorcing couples a better chance of successfully negotiating issues that may come up in the future (such as child support, alimony, or custody and visitation issues).
As a divorce mediator I
often find myself reminding the parties that coming
to an agreement in mediation is far less costly
than going to court both financially and emotionally.
In contrast, these same kinds of cases
often have a total combined cost for both spouses of less
than ten thousand dollars in mediation and attorney fees when divorcing couples choose
to go to mediation prior
to bringing a
court action.
It's also
often less expensive
than traditional divorces that
go to court.
And remember that no matter how much it costs, mediation will
often be cheaper
than going to court.
They are significantly cheaper
than going to court on an interlocutory application and
often clear the way for complete settlement.