Family Business Mediation Firm

How to Choose a Family Business Mediation Firm

Choosing a family business mediation firm is a very important decision. It has a critical impact on the way you and your family solve your problems both now, and in the future. The right firm will help you move forward with your decision making, succession planning, family, and business. Alternative Law’s Mediation saves you time and money and will cost …

Divorce Mediation Process

What is the Divorce Mediation Process

Divorce mediation is one of the most specific areas of conflict resolution, because it involves making serious permanent changes and adjustments in one of the principal elements of our life. It requires male and female mediation specialists. Our divorce mediators have been specifically educated in divorce procedures, difficult conflicts, divorce laws, and the multiple issues that affect people on a …

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Navigating Family Business Conflicts: A Guide for Owners and Managers

“When family members are owners, employees, or related parties, you can double the chances of personal or professional conflicts. With an experienced mediator, you should be able to redirect that energy as a force to better navigate family business conflicts.  – Mark Fallon of Alternative Law Balancing personal and professional relationships within a family business can be tricky. Unstructured businesses …

Alternatives to Litigation

Mediation Mitigates Landlord–Tenant Disputes From The Housing Crisis

The recent housing crisis has not been easy on home-owners. Many home-owners have been forced to foreclose. Often, this ends in bankruptcy and taking down large banks with them in the process. Bank of America, Wachovia and US Bank Corp are all large corporations that lost billions in the mortgage crisis. Mediation mitigates housing disputes. But a less-discussed off-shoot of …

Family Business Succession Planning

Family Business Mediation Resolves Conflicts

In the family business mediation world , there are  great challenges and a diversity of opinions. We  are able to resolve complex family business disputes and provide family members parties with a clear path forward. This direction is especially true in ongoing  serious family business conflicts. Using  our family business mediation conflict services to help a family business grow  and …

Is There A Place For Verbal Business Agreements?

Commercial or business mediation helps manage the difficult communication issues that normally develop when business ventures are formed or to help manage ongoing relationships. A new business venture is in fact a new type relationship. Exciting at the start, even more exciting when rewarding, and can turn sour very quickly when conflict develops or losses   occur. Existing businesses may …

Simple Process For Stressless Divorce

Divorce is stressful; there is almost no way around that. But in some extreme cases, it gets so stressful that incidents of long-term trauma, irreparable relationships, family turmoil or even hospitalization, long-term depression, substance abuse, etc. are not uncommon. When such as serious incident arises, you would hope that there are resources available to make the process easier. Mediation provides …