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The Initial Divorce Client Interview: A New Approach

If you are a divorce lawyer, please consider using this approach. If you are a divorce client, please give your lawyer a copy.

Introduction: Understanding the Problem and Planning the Solutions

This introduces our twelve-part Divorce Conflict Information Booklet Series, six dealing with understanding the problem and six dealing with planning the solutions.

Three Lens Approach to Understanding Divorce Conflict

Moderate to high conflict co-parenting relationships occupy a great deal of the time and resources of attorneys, mental health professionals, mediators and courts in the current family law system.

The Roots of Divorce Conflict

Developmental Stages of Marriage. Marriages go through developmental stages in a rough order, although all three stages are active at all times and overlap.

Is Divorce Conflict Addictive?

The purpose of this Booklet to add to our knowledge as to what drives persisting high conflict divorce cases, to date for which we find unsatisfying answers.

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

The Current Family Law System is Broken. The Headwinds for Change Continue Blowing Strong. Are We Ready for Change?

Is the Traditional Family Law System a Static Culture, Doomed to a Future of Slow or No Growth?

Biological evolution is indifferent to outcomes. People often think of evolution as a process of improving the adaptability of a species, but this is not the case.

Is the Traditional Family Law System Facing Extinction, and What Can Be Done Before It’s Too Late?

Inflection points should not be ignored. In mathematics, there is a concept called the inflection point, which describes the point at which a curve on a graph changes direction.

Growing the Pie and Increasing the Settlement Value Using Game Theory Principles

In our two books, Game Theory and the Transformation of Family Law and Winning Strategies in Divorce, we apply Game Theory to family law negotiations and mediation.

Theoretical Considerations and Interventions in High Conflict Co-parenting Relationships

Moderate to high conflict co-parenting relationships occupy far too much time and resources of attorneys, mental health professionals, mediators and courts in the family law system.

Settling Through Mediation

Negotiations have always existed between people.

“I Hate You, but I Respect You”

Moty Cristal is one of the authors in the large Negotiator’s Desk Reference (NDR), who focuses on the type of cases that become the persistent moderate- to high-conflict divorce cases that trouble us mostly because of the children in those families.

Goal Based Planning and Thinking Outside the Box

We once again quote Muhammad Yunus above because deal-making in the Game Theory Model (hereinafter, the “Model”), although replete with special knowledge and techniques, is heavily dependent on the mindset of the negotiators and the goals of the bargaining process.