Court Based Divorce Mediation In Far Canadian Cities

Recent years have seen a growing interest in the development and encouragement of ways of ending unhappy marriages which minimize the social, psychic and economic costs. One alternative to the traditional legal process is divorce mediation, the use of a neutral third party whose goal is to aid separating and divorcing couples through conciliation counselling. This report is an evaluation of this innovation in family law, concerning itself with the development, nature and impact of mediation as an alternative dispute resolution. The report draws upon the Winnipeg Study and the Divorce and Family Mediation Study, from the Department of Justice, and presents their major findings on court-based divorce and family mediation services.

The findings described in this report come from a two-year study of court-based divorce mediation and separation counselling in Saskatoon, Montreal, and Saint John's. This document reviews the issues of concern with respect to divorce and family mediation and some of the findings from social science research which underlie the rationale for non-adversarial approaches to marriage breakdown. It also describes the research design and data base for each of the research modules and sites. It provides a descriptive account of the three courts and their mediation service and approach. In addition, it looks at mediation in Canada more generally, and includes an analysis and evaluation of the outcomes of divorce mediation, with particular reference to the economic situation of couples and their children, to custody and access, to parenting generally, and the impact of mediation on various aspects of the court process.

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Discover the most up-to-date findings on a range of mediation topics Sponsored by the Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution In eighteen original chapters, this book, sponsored by the Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, examines the nature and effectiveness of mediation in a wide variety of disputes including divorce cases, neighborhood conflicts, international disputes, environmental conflicts, and labor negotiations. The authors explain how mediation works, look at the factors that determine whether mediation can be used to resolve a dispute, and identify the conditions under which it is most effective.