Pullos Dispute Resolution offers a bespoke collective of Dispute Resolution services designed to meet the needs of individual people. Through traditional litigation, decisions are made for through a rigid legal process. The dispute resolution practices offered here empowers you to take part in the decision making process so that the agreement you are left with considers and is informed by what is best for and most meaningful to you.
All of the dispute resolution processes offered here are internationally and Australian recognised, legally binding, and accommodate for the personal needs and interests of you and your family as you navigate through a relationship breakdown or personal conflict.
Choosing the resolution service that is right for you and your particular situation is fundamental to achieving your best possible agreement. Cassandra will walk you through the options and help you select that pathway that will best serve you now, and support your vision for the future.
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Mediation
Your mediator is an independent neutral professional who assists both parties in finding a solution to their dispute, issue or conflict. Through the mediation process, your mediator will help both parties explore the factors driving conflict, what is most important to each party in a resolution, and what the options are for reaching that resolution. Your mediator will reality test those options with you and assist you in making the best decision for you and your family. Finally, your mediator can draft up a legally binding agreement to make sure that the decisions you have made are recognised in and enforceable by court of law.
Mediation is an integral dispute resolution method in family law, personal injury cases, workplace disputes and most commercial disputes. Mediators do not make decisions for either party or participate in evidence gathering, they are there to help both parties reach a resolution that is durable and satisfactory. Parties may enter mediation with or without legal representation. Except in extremely narrow circumstances, the mediation process is confidential; your mediator retains no notes and can’t be required to give evidence, nor will either party give evidence on what was said, conceded or offered during mediation.
Collaborative Practice
Collaborative Practice allows each party to be represented by a legal advocate whilst having the opportunity to engage neutral third party professionals as needed; for example, forensic accountants, commercial or tax advisors, financial planners and child specialists. Your collaborative lawyer is your personal advocate, they are acting on your behalf and are not neutral. You and your collaborative lawyer, along with any other required specialists, will work to identify and evaluate your prioritised goals, interests and necessities. With this groundwork in place, you will work with your collaborative lawyers, and any neutral professionals engaged, to reach a settlement outcome that best delivers on the things you have identified as most important.
Parenting coordination
Parenting Coordinators are neutral actors who work with you and the other parent to implement parenting orders handed down by a Judge, or a parenting plan which reflects the agreement you have reached about your children, often through mediation. Parenting coordinators will educate both parents about conflict resolution and the effect parental conflict can have on children. Parents will receive coaching to learn new and healthier conflict resolution techniques which will aid them in resolving the inevitable conflicts that arise when co-parenting, and help them avoid further Court intervention or the need for ongoing assistance. Ultimately, parenting coordinators will assist parents in upholding orders, steering clear of future litigation, and learning how to protect their children and strengthen their child's ongoing relationship with both parents.
Unlike mediation this process is not confidential and if future conflicts are referred back to the Court, coordinator notes can be called for by way of evidence. The parenting coordinator could be asked to write a report about the parenting conflict or to give evidence in Court about it. As a result, both parties are more accountable for their responses and engagement in the parenting coordination process. This accountability often leads to both parents making more thoughtful and durable commitments, ultimately benefiting the health and development of their children and inter-family relationships.
Arbitration
Your arbitrator takes the position of a privately appointed judge rather than a mediation style facilitator. Each party, with the assistance of their individual lawyers, presents their evidence to the arbitrator who will then consider the case within the parameters of the law and hand down a legally binding decision, to the effect of a court order. Arbitrators makes decision in a similar manner to Court room judges, with consideration to the law but with no reference to each party’s personal interest or goals.
Your arbitrator is a neutral legal professional who makes decisions based on the legal rights of each party. Each party, with the assistance of their individual lawyers, presents their evidence to the arbitrator for the purpose of the arbitrator making a decision. The arbitrators decision is binding and has the same effect as a Court order. Arbitration is closely related to more traditional litigation processes, however parties benefit from avoiding long wait times and the stress of appearing in court.
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