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Video Transcript: Mediation is preferred to litigation for a myriad of reasons.  First of all, is the cost - mediation is invariably less expensive than litigation.  It is not a few thousand dollars less to mediate; many times it may be ten, twenty, or even thirty thousand dollars less than litigation.  In addition, a benefit of mediation is the case is over ...

Video Transcript: There’s two ways that you can find out the identity of an anonymous author online. First, is you can just ask. You can email the website, email the ISP and say “Hey, this person said mean things about me” or inform them of the reason you want to know and just ask. Most of the times, the website won’t actually give you that...

Working to Obtain Your Goals Perseverance is everything. There is no excuse to ever give up. If you doubt this, you either have had success handed to you, which happens rarely, if ever, or you come up against trying to reach a goal and pivot instead of pushing through to reach your desired result. You may even describe your pivot as a strategic change of plans bas...

Video Transcript What is Opting Out? Are There Advantages in Doing So? Opting out is resolving a family law dispute outside the judicial system. I think that the parties can achieve clear advantages by choosing to opt out and resolve their issues outside the traditional judicial system. One is that the parties control their own destiny. If they opt out by choosing...

Arizona is a community property state and community property law controls the division of all assets of your marital estate. Division of Community Property For example, the acquisition of a new house during the marriage can create difficult community property questions upon divorce. What if there was a contribution of separate property? What if title is held in th...

Don't Be a Workoholic Are you the workaholic each of us knows? You know the one. Checking email from the time waking up to checking their phone when they are at lunch with you (rude, by the way) to checking it up until they go to sleep. Every social opportunity is really a networking opportunity with people they probably would not socialize with. Conversations rel...

In a typical residential sales transaction, the first formal document usually exchanged is an offer, usually by the buyer to the seller. The seller then either accepts or submits a counter-offer, and back and forth it goes until one side either accepts the other's counter-offer or calls off the negotiations. Upon the acceptance being communicated the two sides hav...

Question: Can I receive a corrective action plan from my employer without prior written or verbal warnings? Answer: Yes, an at-will employee in Arizona may be placed on a corrective action plan without any prior warnings. Arizona is an employment at will state, meaning that unless there is a written agreement stating that the employee may only be terminated for ...

Loss carry-forward is a frequently forgotten asset in divorces.  Whether the loss arises from the operation of a business (Net Operating Loss) or sale of stocks (capital loss), it is a valuable asset which may be used to offset either future income or capital gains. Currently, the Internal Revenue Code restricts claiming capital losses in excess of capital ga...

The length of a divorce proceeding in Maricopa County is dependent on several factors. The first factor is dependent on the spouses.  The increased conflict and animosity between spouses, along with attachment to certain outcomes create more controversy.  The more controversy or issues there are, the longer it takes to resolve the matter. The Court's cal...