Peace-Making resolves all marital and divorce disputes: custody, parenting plans, spousal support, child support and division of property, even when they seem very complex.
We also can dissolve marital conflict itself with the Nonviolence skills Gandhi uncovered. We lend our Nonviolence skills in Peace-Making Mediation, and we teach our skills in Relationship Transformation.
“My joy was boundless. I had learnt the true practice of law. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men’s hearts. I realized that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder.” M.K. Gandhi.
We aim to resolve each marital and divorce dispute as simply and cost effectively as reason allows, and we use every tool available for that. In the order of least to most financially and emotionally costly, we provide Peace-Making Mediation, Facilitative Mediation, Evaluative Mediation, Arbitration and Collaboration.
We also represent people. Trial can be a financial and an emotional nightmare, because it can be conducted as civil warfare. As warfare trial spends down your financial resources, and it exhausts your emotions. We negotiate settlement in most cases. When a case cannot be reasonably settled, we help clients go to trial, not as warfare, but to get the final decision they cannot get otherwise.
To help you find how to choose the methods to make fair divorce decisions call us for a free initial consultation. We have included information about all of the methods of making marital and divorce decisions and their benefits and weaknesses, so that together we can decide the right balance of legal safety and expense.
Please contact us for a free initial consultation. Our home office is in Portland, Oregon. By video conference and high speed internet, we offer all services, excepting representation, throughout Oregon, and we offer Peace-Making Mediation and Relationship Transformation throughout North America.
Allow us to help bring Peace into your family.