Arbritration | Alternatives for Settling a Divorce or Custody Case Outside of Court - Part 5
Welcome to the fifth video in my series on how to resolve your divorce or child custody case outside of the courtroom. So, in the first four videos we talked about exchanging letters or emails, informal settlement conferences, collaborative divorce and mediation.
In this video I want to talk with you about arbitration. Arbitration is another way that you can expedite resolving your case outside of the courtroom. Although it is quite a bit like getting your case resolved in court. In arbitration you and the other party would mutually select an arbitrator to decide the contested issues in your case. The arbitrator could be somebody who practices family law and has a lot of experience, it could be a retired judge, or it could be anybody else that you mutually select.
The job of the arbitrator is to hear the contested issues and make a decision. I have conducted arbitrations and I participated as a representing a party in arbitrations. An...
