Self-Represented Parties in Mediation: Fifty Years Later It Remains the Elephant in the Room

The past fifty years have borne witness to increases in parties representing themselves and mediating, rather than litigating, in divorce and other family law cases. In this article, we review changes in family law; discuss challenges for self‐represented litigants and mediators working with them; r...

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Published in:Family court review 2013-01, Vol.51 (1), p.87-103
Main Authors: Applegate, Amy G., Beck, Connie J.A.
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Ethics
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