“Mediation empowers you to play an active role in shaping your best possible agreement, whilst giving you the security and guidance to ensure your decisions are right for you now, and into the future.”
Cassandra has been assisting clients through relationship breakdowns since 1985. As one of the country’s first Accredited Family Law Specialists and a national leader in Mediation, Parenting Coordination, Collaborative Practice and Arbitration, Cassandra has an intimate knowledge of the challenges people face when experiencing a personal or professional conflict.
Cassandra started Pullos Dispute Resolution (PDR) to provide people with an effective, empowering and positive alternative to traditional litigation.
PDR offers a variety of dispute resolution services, including mediation, each aimed at helping you navigate the difficulty of personal or professional conflict and empowering you to shape your ideal future moving forward.
Cassandra will work closely with you to determine the dispute resolution service that best serves you, and then assist you through the resolution process until you have a durable and positive agreement that will form the foundation on which you can build your future.
Contact Pullos Dispute Resolution to discuss the best pathway for you.
Dispute Resolution Services
Through Pullos Dispute Resolution, Cassandra will help you chose the dispute resolution pathway that best suits and your needs. No matter which pathway you follow, your process will be personalised and carefully tailored to achieve a binding and future focused agreement that best represents your interests and needs.
About Cassandra
Cassandra is an Accredited Family Law Specialist with over 30 years experience helping people through relationship breakdowns. She is a national leader in the field of dispute resolution and has been instrumental in the Australian adoption of Collaborative Law, and Parenting Coordination. Through Pullos Dispute Resolution, Cassandra personally matches each client with the specialized dispute resolution service that best suits them and will result in the most meaningful and durable agreement.
Frequently Asked Questions
+ When is Mediation Effective?
Mediation is one of the most flexible dispute resolution techniques and can be employed to resolve almost any dispute, no matter how large or small.
Generally speaking, mediation can be considered when both parties to a conflict want to retain control over the outcome of their dispute. Both parties need to be prepared to engage in joint problem solving and focus more on the future than on the past. This can be difficult during a conflict, but your mediator is trained to facilitate when communication breaks down
Mediation is also a requirement before you enter the Court system in disputes in relation to children (called Family Dispute Resolution or “FDR”) and is a requirement along the Court pathway in financial disputes (Court ordered mediation).
Parties at any stage of a dispute can choose mediation indapendtly of the Court process or legal representation.
+ What's The Difference Between Collaborative Practice & Mediation?
In mediation, an impartial third party (the mediator) assists the negotiations of both parties and tries to help settle your case. However, the mediator cannot give either of you legal advice or be an advocate for either side. If there are lawyers for each of you, they may or may not be present at the mediation sessions, but if they are not present, then you can consult them between mediation sessions. When there’s an agreement, the mediator prepares a draft of the settlement terms for review and editing by both you and your lawyers.
+ What Is A Collaborative Team?
A Collaborative team is the combination of professionals that you choose to work with to resolve your dispute. It can be simply you and your Collaborative lawyers. In addition to your Collaborative lawyers, you can choose to include a neutral financial professional, divorce coaches, a child specialist or other specialists you and your spouse believe would be helpful. Your "Collaborative team" will guide and support you as problem-solvers, not as adversaries.
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