Divorce Mediation Boston MA

A Fair Negotiation
Negotiation skills will help you achieve some of your needs and wants without alienating or angering the other parties involved. Here's how to use negotiation to resolve disputes and to build better interpersonal relationships.
By Jeffrey Cottrill

We've all heard about those nightmarish divorces that drag on in court for months or years because one or both parties is determined to get his or her way in the final outcome no matter the cost. There are also cases in which one party gets "cleaned out" by the other because of a failure to communicate or inability to stand against the more powerful personality's demands. Truly adversarial litigation is a costly, damaging process that often results in at least one party getting shafted: the adversarial "win-lose" contest inevitably results in bitterness and dissatisfaction for somebody. That's one reason why mediation and collaborative law have become more popular as cooperative "win-win" methods of settling divorce. Rather than ducking it out until one party wins, it's far more constructive for both parties to work out an agreement together -- through the art of negotiation.

Negotiation is an important personal-relations skill -- one that enables you to get what you want without running roughshod over those around you. Whether you're dealing with your ex-spouse, friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers and supervisors, professionals, ...