Mediation Offices

07/29/2025

Read Our Latest Blog About Staying Out of Court To Focus on Peace

Studies show that one of the top 10 adverse childhood events that children in California experience is their parents divorcing acrimoniously. When parents choose peace, by working together in mediation to develop their own divorce agreements, they are choosing to put their kids, their kids' future, and our entire community's well-being first.

To read more about what mediation is like, please go to: https://mediationoffices.net/divorce-process/mediation-is-about-creating-peace/

04/10/2024

12/21/2023

Happy Holidays!

06/07/2023

https://mediationoffices.net/divorce-mediation-myths/

Mediation Offices debunk some myths about divorce mediation preventing couples from a smooth, collaborative approach to their separation.

06/05/2023

https://mediationoffices.net/role-of-a-divorce-mediator/

Mediation Offices in Oakland, CA, offers an empathetic, patient, and unbiased approach, with twenty years of expertise in family mediation.

06/01/2023

https://mediationoffices.net/5-reasons-to-use-divorce-mediation/

Make the choice that serves you best. Choose Mediation Offices in Oakland, CA, for your family law mediation needs.

04/23/2022

Check out Mediation Offices latest blog titled: Why I Will Never Stop Taking High Conflict Mediation Cases.

This blog examines a common topic of conversation between family law mediator-attorneys: Should we reject potential mediation clients based on our assessment of their personalities and how they are manifesting, or not, their stress-levels? Who's being more ethical: The mediators who take an evaluative role as a professional, deciding on who qualifies, and who doesn't, to mediate in their view, or the mediator who is open to working with people who elect to mediate despite having a complex emotional dynamic?

As you can tell from the blog's title, I am very clear where I stand on that topic and enjoy sharing and explaining my view.

Have you spent any time thinking about conflict resolution and what options would work well for yourself or people in your life?

Or, are have you ever pondered whether you'd mediate a conflict in your life, and in what circumstances?

Then, please check out this blog...

https://www.mediationoffices.net/why-i-will-never-stop-taking-high-conflict-mediation-cases/

Thank you!!

01/09/2022

Remote mediation is here to stay and many clients benefit from it. Read Unmani's blog this month about some of the benefits of attending mediation sessions from the comfort of your home or office.

Prior to 2021, I had resisted offering remote mediation services. Occasionally, potential clients would contact me and ask me if I’d mediate their family law matter over Skype or FaceTime. I would always respond that my office did not offer those services because I fervently believed that the in-p...

09/15/2016

Sometimes knowing the deeper elements of your choices helps you feel better about what you end up doing. Read Unmani's blog this month about some of the realities of developing a divorce support agreement in mediation...or letting legal professionals decide your support orders for you.

http://www.mediationoffices.net/choosing-to-mediate-your-divorce-taking-a-deeper-look-at-spousal-support-and-child-support-law-in-california/

(Four minute reading time) Every state has a different approach to spousal and child support. This points out to us, like a big neon sign, that what happens around support orders in California Family Courts is not necessarily what’s fair or just or a best possible outcome. It’s closer to being, “Jus...

07/14/2016

Want to be happy no matter what other people say or do? Go to Unmani’s blog and walk with her through her workday as a divorce mediator to get the lowdown on how to have other people’s huge emotions, whether tears or anger, soften your heart, not drive you into a painful tizzy yourself.

(Three minute reading time) I had a day in the office recently which left me wanting to write about an important truth: most of us express our pain and stress as either intense anger or intense sadness and we’d all be better communicators if we started seeing both of those outer behaviors as manif...

05/17/2016

Today, we all want our phones to help us do everything from prevent getting cancer to staving off boredom, but will they someday be able to lead our lives for us? Read Unmani's ruminations on the fanciful idea that that someday our phones might be able to make the divorce process painless, easy, and free.

http://www.mediationoffices.net/id-like-my-divorce-to-be-painless-easy-and-free-is-there-an-app-for-that/

Three Minute Reading Time I have been a mediator-attorney working with divorcing couples in an amicable process outside the court system for twelve years now and have yet to see any solution—whether it’s pre-set, flat-fee divorce services or the Elkins Family Law Task Force’s sweeping reforms instit...