Family Court Mediation Streamlined – Some Ideas

...ty of family cases to participate in good faith mediation. 4. Establish a fund for low income litigants to have mediation, and place a realistic sliding scale, one that allows competent attorneys, with staff and overhead, not practicing out of a their cars, to be mediators, for litigants who are above the poverty line. 5. Set a standard that requires lawyers to accompany their clients this most critical stage of representation. 6. A “contested iss...