Divorce Mediation, Family Mediation & Interpersonal Conflict

Interview with mediator Paul Merlyn

Mediation: Guidance to Make Informed Choices

If you’ve ever faced a divorce, custody battle, or family/business dispute, you probably experienced pain and distress throughout the conflict. Conflict becomes even more painful when we attempt to resolve it through adversarial means. These include threats, passive-aggressive behaviors such as refusal to talk about contentious issues, and the inherently adversarial process of litigation.

Our professional mediators provide divorce mediation, custody mediation, and small/family business conflict resolution services. Unlike adversarial approaches, which represent conflict as a contest, mediation approaches conflict as a problem to be solved with the help of a professional mediator. Fair and impartial, we’ll guide you to a settlement using a proven problem-solving process in which you’ll attack the problem, not each other. We also provide custom services for clients who've already reached substantive agreements but need help completing their resolution process.

Mediation won’t dispel the loss, anger, hurt, or frustration that you may feel when conflict enters a relationship. But it will transform the way you resolve the issues in dispute while significantly reducing both the emotional pain and the financial toll of a more adversarial approach to conflict.

Mediation: A Better Way to Resolve Conflict

Welcome to New Resolution. We believe our problem-solving approach is the better way to settle disputes. Conflict needn’t be debilitating. When approached as a problem, it’s an opportunity for change, an opportunity for growth, and an opportunity to learn.

Our divorce mediation, custody, and small/family business conflict resolution services are available through offices and satellite locations in Dallas-Fort Worth-McKinney, San Francisco/North Bay, San Mateo-Palo Alto-San Jose, Seattle-Bellevue-Kirkland, and Walnut Creek/San Ramon. We also provide telephone and video-conference mediation to parties worldwide.

Take some time to explore our site. You’ll learn more about divorce mediation and interpersonal conflict resolution and how we guide our clients through divorce, custody, marital, eldercare, and small/family business disputes. We think you’ll agree: mediation is the better way to resolve conflict.