![]() | Divorced from Reality: Rethinking Family Dispute Resolution Over the past thirty years, there has been a dramatic shift in the way the legal system approaches and resolves family disputes. Traditionally, family law dispute resolution was based on an "adversary" system: two parties and their advocates stood before a judge who determined which party was at fault in a divorce and who would be awarded the rights in a custody dispute. Now, many family courts are opting for a "problem-solving" model in which courts attempt to resolve both legal and non-legal issues. Jane C. Murphy (Author) Jane C. Murphy is Laurence M. Katz Professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She is co-author of Family Mediation: Theory and Practice and co-editor of Resolving Family Conflicts. Jana B. Singer (Author) Jana B. Singer is Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She is co-editor of Divorced from Reality: Rethinking Family Dispute Resolution (NYU Press, 2015), Resolving Family Conflicts (Ashgate, 2008), and co-author of Family Law: Cases, Problems, and Materials, 2nd Ed (Lexis Nexis Matthew Bender 1998). |
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