Mediation & Collaborative Divorce Attorney in Everett, Washington

How does mediation work in Washington State divorce cases?

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in terms of mediation in Washington

state virtually all the counties in in

our state require mediation prior to the

point in time where you can proceed to

trial it’s really where the rubber meets

the road and and things happen in in

domestic matters in in our state i would

say probably 85 90% of the cases that we

deal with are sorted out in a mediation

sess setting as opposed to some sort of

trial setting uh not many of these cases

go to trial uh most of them get done in

mediation the process itself is is is

handled as follows typically uh the

attorneys involved will generally select

a neutral uh third party mediator that

can be another attorney who has a

mediation practice maybe a retired judge

and uh that mediator will schedule a

time where we spend together uh going

over the case and and and reviewing the

materials both parties would submit

written materials in advance to the

mediator the mediator would separate the

parties so they would be in two separate

rooms and the mediator would shuttle

back and forth between those rooms uh

during the course of the day in an

effort to facilitate a resolution

mediators not there to decide anything

they’re there to uh see if they can

facilitate a conclusion to the case and

if so we enter into a written agreement

that so reflects

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Everett, WA family law attorney Ken Brewe talks about how mediation works in Washington State divorce cases.