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May 14, 2010

Mediation: Tips for Parties and Lawyers

...Those lawyers have not “done their homework”, and probably haven’t been to mediation training. Family law mediation training requires five days. Basic mediation training is 2 days. Advanced mediation training, and updates are one day each. I have attended it all, and often been the “squeaky wheel” spouting “heresy”. (Note; thank you to Professor Patrick for recently asking me to participate in training of law school and college students for magist...

June 25, 2018

Tying It All Together: Mediation, Unbundling, Collaboration, and a New Paradigm

...water of collaborative divorce, and considering early, even prelitigation, mediation. I urge mediation for self-represented, pro se, litigants. I also suggest an expanded role and training for paralegals and a modern focus on “preventive law”. If “collaborative divorce” as I understand it includes a core component that the attorney “collaborative lawyer” must withdraw if settlement fails and hand the case over to another attorney, I consider it to...

February 1, 2011

The Tension Between Lawyers and Judges

...I had been brainwashed by the other side. Boy, could I have used a strong mediator that day. Such mediators are the salvation of the lawyer with the “difficult” client. Good mediators engender trust in the litigants, and they back up the lawyer who has to give bad news to his client. 11. Even the judges who know me well do not seem to realize that my personal standard of fairness is higher than any ethical “standard” the State Bar can impose on m...

August 3, 2014

Adventures in Social Media Marketing – The Mystery of The #Hashtag

...ter, and see what happens. https://www.udemy.com/understanding-hashtags-in-social-media/. He suggests that we use hashtags for FaceBook, Google+, Pinterest, and photo sites. If you like to write, as I do, and find this stuff to be fun, as I do, then dive in and see what happens. For heavens sake, do not fail to claim your profiles on the major free sites! My friend Dick Billick has shown me a survey questionnaire system to help me and my staff man...

November 24, 2012

Children, Guardians Ad Litem, The Law, and Society

...ive or six years?! p. The questioner voiced her belief that as soon as the social worker hears there is a family court case, they tune it out under the theory the parties will fight it out or the family court will handle it. That has been my experience. q. The social workers are now having to follow a computer program that drives the process and removes judgment and initiative. We in family court are pretty much ignorant of these standards. Readin...

July 20, 2010

Mediation Conundrums, Domestic Violence, and Sociopaths

...spouse’s controlling behavior, only to be sent to fend for her/his self at mediation. It boggles my mind. Still, mediators help many people sort out a parenting plan which is a key ingredient in a divorce. Strangely, and for reasons I have mentioned in prior blog posts, the Family Court CANNOT order them to mediation on issues of equitable distribution or spousal support. In north central WV, Upshur, Lewis, and Randolph Counties, judges expect the...

January 17, 2018

Why Make Daily Posts to Social Media?

...lso post professionally, for three or four reasons: 1.To educate the public; 2. to market myself; 3. to influence my profession; and, 4. to educate people in power, professors, politicians, and judges. I post to my private FB, to my “Mediation Services” Page, to my “J. Burton Hunter III, and Assocs., PLLC” page, my blog – www.hunterlawfirm.net , to Google+, Linked In, and, yep, even to Twitter. I write every word myself, so feedback and questions...

March 15, 2016

Urgent Note to Couples in their ’60’s Re: Social Security Benefits

...f 2015. https://hunterlawfirm.net/what-you-do-not-know-about-insurance-and-social-security-can-hurt-you/ Apparently, this very important Social Security Retirement benefit, worth up to $60,000, is getting ready to go away! It is called a “loophole”, I called it a “tax increase”. If you are 65-70, this can be very important, especially if you are planning to hold off registering for your retirement benefits to 68 – 70. What I learned, on NPR, and f...

March 15, 2014

FAQ

...ly court mediator, and I have represented hundreds of people in successful mediation. What is Mediation and Alternate Dispute Resolution Anyway? Mediation is part of a subject known as “alternate dispute resolution”; you probably have heard of arbitration, especially in professional sports and labor disputes. Arbitration is something “big business” and “big insurance” tries to foist on the public by requiring it in all sorts of “form contracts”. T...

February 19, 2021

Family Law in WV: A Deep Dive

...rt. In cases involving children, the Family Court may order the parties to mediation with a mediator “in the Court’s mediators’ list ”. Those mediators agree to be bound by the WV Supreme Court of Appeals “sliding scare”. Such mediations may cost as little as $45-$95 per hour. Most family courts will not order mediation on the property and debt issues, but the parties can agree to mediate any issue. This lawyer has strongly lobbied to expand media...