- Negotiation: Voluntary participation with no third party
- Mediation: A third party (mediator) facilitates the resolution process
- Collaborative law: Each party has an attorney who facilitates the resolution process within specifically contracted terms
- Arbitration: Voluntary participation (usually) with a third party who, as a private judge, imposes a resolution
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Alternative Dispute Resolution
Bankruptcy Law
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Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an
individual or organizations to pay their creditors. Bankruptcy law provides for
the development of a plan that allows a debtor to resolve his debts through the
division of his assets among his creditors.
Criminal Law
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Criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of various bodies
of rules in different jurisdictions whose common characteristic is the potential
for unique and often severe impositions as punishment for failure to comply.
DUI/DWI
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Driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs (driving while intoxicated, drunk
driving, drinking and driving, drink-driving) or other drugs, is the act of operating
a motor vehicle (and even a bicycle, boat, airplane or horse in selected jurisdictions)
after having consumed alcohol, to the degree that mental and motor skills are impaired.
Family Law
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Family law deals with family-related issues and domestic relations including:
- the nature of marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships
- issues including spousal abuse, legitimacy, adoption, surrogacy, child abuse, and child abduction
- the termination of the relationship including divorce, annulment, property settlements, alimony, & parental responsibility orders
Adoption
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Adoption refers to the act by which an adult formally becomes the guardian
of a child and incurs the rights and responsibilities of a parent. At the conclusion
of the formal process, a legal relationship between child and guardian will have
formed. The legal relationship results in the adoptee becoming the legal heir of
the adopter and terminates any legal rights then in existence with the natural parents.
Custody & Visitation
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There are two kinds of custody: legal and physical. Physical custody, designates
where the child will actually live, whereas legal custody gives the custodial person(s)
the right to make decisions for the child's welfare.
Custody requires a court's determination of which parent, relative or other adult should have physical and/or legal control and responsibility for a minor.
Divorce
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Divorce is the dissolution of a marriage contracted between a man and a woman,
by the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, or by an act of the legislature.
Until a decree of divorce be actually made, neither party can treat the other as
sole, even in cases where the marriage is utterly null and void for some preexisting
cause.
Litigation & Appeals
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Litigation attorneys represent parties who have filed a lawsuit (plaintiffs)
in civil court and those who have been sued (defendants), in all phases of a case
-- including discovery, motions, and trial. Appeals attorneys represent parties
in challenging the outcome of a lower court case, including preparation of written
briefs and oral arguments in appellate court.