This new innovative book provides students with the basic grounding in theories and skills of family mediation. Coverage includes:

• Approaches to mediating a range of family law disputes;

• When family mediation may or may not be appropriate;

• Family mediation legislation;

• Special family law mediation issues;

• The role of lawyers in family mediation;

• Ethical considerations; and

• How mediation fits in the context of other family law trends.

This book is appropriate for skills courses and clinics focusing on family mediation as well as family mediation seminars.