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Mandatory Family Mediation And The Settlement Mission: A Feminist Critique, Noel Semple
Mandatory Family Mediation And The Settlement Mission: A Feminist Critique, Noel Semple
Law Publications
North American family law conflicts are very often brought to mediation, in which a neutral third party attempts to bring about a voluntary resolution of the spouses’ dispute. Family mediation has many enthusiastic supporters, and has in many jurisdictions been made a mandatory precursor to traditional litigation. However, it has also given rise to a potent feminist critique, which identifies power imbalance and domestic violence as sources of exploitation and unjust mediated outcomes. This article summarizes the feminist critique of family mediation, and assesses the efforts of contemporary mediation practice to respond to it. Even in the absence of formal …
Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Family Service Delivery: Disease, Prevention, And Treatment, Noel Semple
Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Family Service Delivery: Disease, Prevention, And Treatment, Noel Semple
Law Publications
Family relationships are both a source of profound satisfaction, and a source of profound challenges for Ontarians. All family relationships end eventually, and it is not always death which does them part. At least 40% of intimate relationships between adults are eventually terminated by the choice of one or both parties.1 Some intimate relationships dissolve painlessly. Many others, however, create serious challenges when they end, both for the individuals involved and for Ontario as a whole. From the province’s point of view, these family challenges can be analogized to a public health problem. The malady in question is not generally …