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For more information about parenting issues after a relationship has ended and how to put the children first in your dispute with the other parent, see the page <span style="color: red;">Children > Parenting After Separation</span>. For more information about the emotional issues that tend to come with the end of a long-term relationship and how to keep those issues from hopelessly complicating your dispute, see the page <span style="color: red;">Marriage & Divorce > Separating Emotionally</span>.
For more information about parenting issues after a relationship has ended and how to put the children first in your dispute with the other parent, see the page <span style="color: red;">Children > Parenting After Separation</span>. For more information about the emotional issues that tend to come with the end of a long-term relationship and how to keep those issues from hopelessly complicating your dispute, see the page <span style="color: red;">Marriage & Divorce > Separating Emotionally</span>.
==The Family Law Act and Alternatives to Court==
The new ''Family Law Act'' encourages...
==Alternatives to Court==
There really are only two ways to resolve a legal dispute without going to court, you can negotiate a settlement or you can ask someone other than a judge to arbitrate the dispute and impose a resolution. Judicial settlement conferences, mediation and collaborative processes are types of negotiation. Parenting coordination is a hybrid process using elements of mediation and elements of arbitration.


===Negotiation===
===Negotiation===