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Mediation has lots to recommend it. It's cooperative, it's based on discussion and compromise, and its goal is to reach a settlement by consensus. However, without that last ingredient, consensus, mediation <span class="noglossary">will</span> always fail. It sometimes makes sense to include a way of breaking an impasse, and that might mean giving the mediator the power to resolve a stalemate by imposing a decision like an arbitrator. This hybrid approach to mediation and arbitration is called "med/arb." | Mediation has lots to recommend it. It's cooperative, it's based on discussion and compromise, and its goal is to reach a settlement by consensus. However, without that last ingredient, consensus, mediation <span class="noglossary">will</span> always fail. It sometimes makes sense to include a way of breaking an impasse, and that might mean giving the mediator the power to resolve a stalemate by imposing a decision like an arbitrator. This hybrid approach to mediation and arbitration is called "med/arb." | ||
In a med/arb process, the parties sign an agreement that commits them to the mediation process and describes what <span class="noglossary">will</span> happen if agreement can't be reached. The agreement should say whether the mediator <span class="noglossary">will</span> use information from the mediation phase to make decisions in the arbitration phase, and how other evidence <span class="noglossary">will</span> be presented in the arbitration | In a med/arb process, the parties sign an agreement that commits them to the mediation process and describes what <span class="noglossary">will</span> happen if agreement can't be reached. The agreement should say whether the mediator <span class="noglossary">will</span> use information from the mediation phase to make decisions in the arbitration phase, and how other evidence <span class="noglossary">will</span> be presented in the arbitration phase. It's really important to understand what <span class="noglossary">will</span> trigger the end of mediation and the beginning of arbitration, and whether the mediator <span class="noglossary">will</span> have the power to make decisions as an arbitrator on all of the issues or just some of them. | ||
===Parenting coordination=== | ===Parenting coordination=== | ||
