In a witty, well-observed scene, the couple even go to a mediator (John Rothman), and the session brings them to loggerheads.
"With my law," he explained, "a judge would look at a couple like the Giulianis and say, 'Go to a mediator and work out your differences so you can submit a plan for joint custody.' That way you'd spare the kids an awful fight to decide which parent is fit".
You might consider including a paragraph that states that you'll go to a mediator and split the cost 50-50 if you can't reach an agreement on your own.
As his father aged, Siraj grew into a tall strong man whose power and good standing in the community meant that he was the go-to mediator to solve local disputes.
When couples "don't want to spend three years fighting over the coffee table," he said, they go to a divorce mediator.
Under the referees' plan, officials would work this season under their old contract, promising not to strike, and after the Super Bowl in January the dispute would go to a federal mediator if no new collective bargaining agreement had been reached.
"But when people go to meet with the mediator and then the servicer wants to set up a second meeting, and a third meeting, and that family's paying for an attorney — where is that money coming from?" Adam L. Bendett is a partner in a Farmington law firm that represents many lenders in foreclosure cases.
Six months after Ms. Kristensen moved out, the couple went to a mediator who drafted a legal agreement that defined their custody arrangement and the division of personal assets like the house.
If, for instance, he had failed to come to a contract agreement after protracted negotiations with D.C. 37, there was some possibility that the union could have gone to state mediators and gotten a deal that would have cost the city considerably more.
Negotiators for the Israelis and Palestinians will go to Washington today for separate meetings with American mediators, officials from both sides said.
But Mr. Arafat announced today, and the Israelis later confirmed, that both sides' negotiators would go to Washington on Monday for separate meetings with American mediators early this week.
