What Is Divorce and Family Law Mediation?
Mediation is a CONFIDENTIAL and private way to discuss your case. The concerns about your pivotal Family Law issues will be dealt with outside of Court, and with confidence that the work or settlement will not simply not prejudice your position in Court, but it will support it.
Gretchen Taylor decided, settled and mediated thousands of cases during her 12 year tenure on the bench as a family court judge at the downtown Los Angeles and Indio courthouses, and accordingly has a global view of this area of law from every perspective imaginable. No matter the complexity or emotional triggers that are present in your matter, Gretchen has the tools work you through them.
When she was a divorce attorney (now so many years ago), she also practiced mediation and promoted alternative disputed resolution strategies, a very novel and groundbreaking approach at that time. Consequently, her litigated cases were always analyzed with mediation as a preferred way to resolve disputes. Remember that a mediated case can address your particular family situation with time to consider all the nuances, something that in todays Court system is rarely possible.
Whether it is the entire case or there only exists a particularly troublesome issue, Gretchen Taylor can fashion agreement out of the knots of discord. Whether it is a sensitive personal issue embued with anger and hurt or a lengthy financial tale of misfortune or complicated financial tracings, all cases yield to her energy. They resolve with dignity and a fair closure of the matter to the parties' satisfaction.
Hon. Gretchen Taylor has adopted the "understanding" model for her mediation practice. It is extraordinarily effective, and even satisfying. Her success rate over her career as a full time mediator/neutral is better than 95%.
Her style allows for attorneys and full litigation teams to be present and participating in the process. The clients themselves often choose to work together with her alone. This often starts with the filing of the Petition and goes from session to session until Judgment is drafted and entered resolving all issues. Her services include preparing all the paperwork and/or the Mediation Deal Memo, and the ultimate final judgment.
She also uses "team" mediation and has co-mediators in the mental health and forensic accounting fields that, in appropriate situations, give the mediation sessions the input it needs to successfully navigate such disparate topics as custody to tracing. Her high success rate is unusual in this field.
You deserve to give your case, and the mistakes and challenges of the past, the opportunity to become part of your history rather than a source of continuing pain and anxiety in the present.