DISPUTE BUSTERS

• You and your spouse or partner are splitting up, you're yelling at each other, the kids are choosing sides, and you already have more debts than you can handle?
• A neighbor or relative has spread embarrassing (and, maybe, false) stories about you?
• Your HOA members are in open warfare and rules are being flaunted? The congregation has split into two (or more) camps and members are threatening to leave?
• A manager and key employee can't work together productively?
• Your business partners want a "regime change"?
• Your liability insurance can't handle another claim from a dissatisfied customer?
  
  The Mandorla: The two intersecting ovals at the top of this page are called a mandorla – an ancient spiritual symbol for the interactions of opposing forces or worlds. In mathematics, the overlapping area represent common elements between two groups. Our job at the West Valley Mediation Center is to help you discover and agree upon those common elements.
  

–noun
1. action in mediating between parties, as to effect an agreement or reconciliation.
2. International Law. an attempt to effect a peaceful settlement between disputing nations through the friendly good offices of another power.
3. nonbinding intervention between parties esp. in a labor dispute to promote resolution of a grievance, reconciliation, settlement, or compromise —compare ARBITRATION


–noun
1. the hearing and determining of a dispute or the settling of differences between parties by a person or persons chosen or agreed to by them: Rather than risk a long strike, the union and management agreed to arbitration.
2. International Law. the application of judicial methods to the settlement of international disputes.