Court-Ordered Divorce Mediation: How the Process Actually Works
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Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY
But at that point, if the judge feels, after talking to the lawyers, that the case is ripe for divorce mediation, he or she may order the parties to meet with a mediator. And then the only thing that the judge is told at the end of that, the judge gets a little note, and it says it’s re: Schwartz against Schwartz, and it says the mediator reports as follows:
The case has been settled, parties refused to attend, or the case, we attempted mediation but was unsuccessful.
The judge is not told.
