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Urgent: How Mediators Resolve Major Conflicts in Divorce

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How do mediators resolve major divorce conflicts? Through training in managing emotions and, when needed, private caucuses, explains New York divorce attorney Bill Leininger. About 95% of his sessions stay in one room; for the rest, he meets each spouse separately, promising confidentiality. That candor pays off—one caucus revealed a spouse was only stalling while secretly planning to move away.

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Answered by Bill Leininger · Staten Island, NY

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— the training in managing emotions that conflict resolution draws on

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— why 95% stay in one room, and what happens in the other 5%

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— how a private caucus breaks an impasse

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How do mediators resolve major conflicts?

Through training in managing emotions and, when needed, private caucuses—about 95% of his sessions stay in one room, and for the rest he meets each spouse separately, promising confidentiality. One caucus revealed a spouse was only stalling while secretly planning to move away.

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