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ADR Notable

ADR Notable's secure, cloud-based platform helps mediators at every step of the mediation process, from new client intake to taking notes in-session, to creating a term sheet with a click of a button. ADR Notable truly is mediation management made easy. Start your THREE FREE MONTHS today, no credit card information required. Use Promotional Code: SCMA2021.

ADR Notable

Honest Divorce

Honest Divorce is a collaborative site for couples seeking an open and respectful approach to the dissolution of their marriage. It was founded by SCMA member, Steve Newman, who is a CPA, CDFA, CFF, and trained mediator. Steve works in collaboration with attorneys and therapists to provide complete marital dissolution services required by clients. 

Honest Divorce

The Marriage Team

The Marriage Team is a marital mediation service helping couples strengthen their marriages to avoid divorce. It was founded by SCMA member, Steve Newman, who is a CPA, CDFA, CFF, and mediator. Steve applies mediation concepts, such as focusing on interests, to allow couples to reach agreements that meet each spouse’s needs within the marriage. 

The Marriage Team

 Probate Mediation Services

Facilitating conversations for family conflicts regarding wills & trusts, distribution of real & personal property, guardianships, conservatorships, visitation schedules, parenting plans. We establish a safe space for families to discuss concerns and disputes on probate matters. This office provides written settlement agreements, is experienced in partnering with probate attorneys, and encourages self-represented clients to contact us.

Probate Mediation Services

 Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution

CLASSIC & COLLABORATIVE DIVORCE MEDIATION: Classic mediation allows you to work with a mediator to decide if you want to end your marriage and on what basis. In Collaborative mediation, you work with a mediator and a Collaborative Team, who provide limited scope counseling and information to make decisions about what to do in your divorce. 

Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution

 Up a Notch Learning Inc.

We are an e-learning community that supports separating & divorcing families globally to become empowered & to thrive in their transition into a 2-home family. Learn more on our website and join our community FREE where you will have access to free resources & premium content designed to be positive & foundational for families. 

Up a Notch Learning Inc.

Family Law Software is the leading divorce financial software, providing divorce professionals with not only accurate and complete child and spousal support computations, but also property division, tax consequences, present values, support arrears and more. Perfect for mediators, autofill financial declarations. Judicial Council approved.

Family Law Software

The Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC) provides mediation and conflict resolution services to the diverse communities in the Los Angeles area, with a focus on the Asian Pacific Islander Population. We strive to improve human relations and race relations by addressing complex, cross cultural community conflicts and their root causes with community partners through education, training, and development of new models and techniques. Look for our upcoming programs for corporations, businesses as well as non-profit and community workshops.

APADRC

We specialize in divorce related mortgage financing and can get your clients the info needed to make confident decisions early in this difficult process. The first step is a quick call to get a snapshot of their situation and goals. We don't run any credit reports or get any account numbers as we do the initial qualifying. Then we run numbers for the best plans to see if they are a match. Only if it is a "YES" will we move to the application stage. We not only confirm qualifying, but work closely with the mediator and CDFA to make sure the buyout or purchase fits the post- divorce budget.

Commerce Home Mortgage

Leyla Balakhane and Lynette Kim, are pleased to announce that they are the co-leaders of the new online SCMA Professional Development Group (PDG) for Family Mediators!  Different times call for new ways of thinking about how we can collaborate. This online community is an opportunity to become more united and connected than ever before. We have designed the group meetings to provide essential information, tools, and skills that you can implement to develop your family mediation practice, along with topics presented by inspiring leaders in family mediation as guest speakers.  We meet the second Wednesday of every month from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm.

Register for February 10, 2021 Meeting Here

MC3 Certification is provided to mediators who possess both extensive mediation training and practical experience. Certified Mediators are also committed to ongoing and continuous professional development. There are a variety of career experiences that mediators may rely on to receive their Certification. Learn more by visiting the MC3 website.

MC3- Mediator Certification

In addition to providing in-person and online mediator training courses, OCHR manages a DRPA court-based mediation program providing volunteer mediators with practical experience co-mediating actual court cases. 

OC Human Relations Divorce Mediation Training

Find out how to avoid the conflict and prepare yourself for a responsible and minimally impactful divorce. In this podcast, attorney-mediators Lani Baron and Jeanann Khalife, give you the truth about divorce. Having seen just about everything, we are here to share it all! Listen to have divorce demystified! 

Divorce Demystified

BIFF for Co-Parent Communication is for parents dealing with issues in separation and divorce as they co-parent their children, including instructions in the four-step BIFF method and 28 examples for dealing with co-parent situations. This book can help you reduce the conflict and regain your sanity by learning what to write and what not to write. Authors: Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., Annette Burns, JD, Kevin Chafin, LPC

So, What’s Your Proposal? is a very simple method for shifting high conflict people - or    anyone – from blaming to problem-solving. Help them quickly: focus on the future, take responsibility, and contribute to finding solutions. You will stay calm and confident, while earning the respect of those around you – even those who want to blame you! Author: Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

So, What's Your Proposal? Shifting High-Conflict People from Blaming to Problem-Solving in 30 Seconds!

In this 10th anniversary edition, attorney/mediator/therapist Bill Eddy shows readers how to protect children from alienation and high-conflict divorce, boosting their resilience for a lifetime by teaching them four key skills. This book shows how parents, family members, counselors, lawyers, and family court judges can be part of the solution. Author: Bill Eddy

Don't Alienate the Kids: Raising Resilient Children While Avoiding High-Conflict Divorce, 2nd Edition

A new website for individuals to learn the skills to deal with any high conflict situation and be part of a supportive community of others in similar situations.  You can participate as a memberor purchase individual playbooks, such as the online parenting class. Professionals can refer clients for dealing with any high conflict situation.

Conflict Playbook

This book is for anyone who is contemplating divorce or in the divorce process. I intend to give reliable legal information, guidance, and assistance to readers so that they can get through the divorce process with the least amount of damage.

How to File and Survive a Divorce in California

EYE-OPENING NEW BOOK-ESSENTIAL RESOURCE FOR DIVORCE PROFESSIONALS

Home Will Never Be the Same: A Guide for Adult Children of Gray Divorce. Two veteran therapists show why it is a mistake to overlook Adult Children as important stakeholders when their parents divorce later in life. This exploding demographic grows by 1,000,000 per year in U.S. alone.

Home Will Never Be the Same Again: A guide for Adult Children of Gray Divorce 

Apology and forgiveness are the building blocks of healing and reconciliation. Everyone has been the offender and the victim in relational conflicts. The decision and execution of apology and forgiveness determine the degree of intimacy in the future relationship. The foundation for this book is an understanding of the variety of approaches to apology.

Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation for Good Lawyers and Other Peacemakers 

Richard Erhard is Principal of the consulting firm, Richard Erhard and Associates, LLC, providing mediation and consultation services focusing on educational disputes. He is President Elect of the SCMA and is on the part-time faculty of the USC Gould School of Law, as a lecturer in law, where he teaches a course in special education dispute resolution.

 Special Education Dispute Resolution in the Era of Covid-19