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Getting Divorced Online: Procedural And Outcome Justice In Online Divorce Mediation, Martin Gramatikov, Laura Klaming Jan 2011

Getting Divorced Online: Procedural And Outcome Justice In Online Divorce Mediation, Martin Gramatikov, Laura Klaming

Martin Gramatikov

In this paper we discuss a study of the experiences of 126 individuals who participated in online divorce mediation in The Netherlands. Divorce is a dispute in which the parties have to distribute a large pool of assets and responsibilities. The distributive dimension of divorce substantiates the expectation that one of the parties may be more content with the outcome than the other. The results of the study show that the divorcees do not differ substantially in how they perceive the quality of the procedure and the quality of the outcome. Both parties assigned relatively high scores to both the …