14-04 AMENDED, SUPERSEDES 14-04 IN RE: DOMESTIC RELATIONS - COLLABORATIVE CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE CASES - ORDERED 2/03/2014 BY JOHN M. HARRIS
EXCERPT: “WHEREAS the courts of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit believe that the collaborative conflict alternative dispute resolution model may be a suitable alternative to full scale adversarial litigation in cases involving dissolution of marriage should the parties so agree and WHEREAS beginning in the 1990’s the collaborative conflict alternative dispute resolution model has been adopted in several states both by common law and by statute, in the United States of America and WHEREAS by means of example the Chief Judge of the State of New York Judith S. Kaye in her 2007 State of the Judiciary address stated the following concerning collaborative conflict alternative dispute resolution at page 11 of her 27-page address on February 26, 2007: (Open AO for more information.)”
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