Should You Mediate Your Lawsuit? - It depends, but the reality is that very few lawsuits actually make it all the way to trial. Most legal disputes settle, whether through mediation or not. But with budget cuts and crowded dockets, you may not have an option. Courts are now starting to mandate mediation as part of the pretrial process.

When Push Comes to Love: Be realistic about kids and divorce - When parents divorce, children do suffer a loss. Sometimes parents have a difficult time seeing that and they make up justifications for what is happening. I have heard them all: “My parents got divorced and I am okay,” “kids are resilient,” and even “things are not going to change that much.” I don’t really know how to state this any clearer: all that you do profoundly impacts your children. All. That. You. Do. Getting a divorce changes your child’s life forever.