Going to court means that you're asking a judge to resolve your legal problem. If you decide to stay out of court but still want someone to resolve your legal problem for you, you'll be resolving your dispute through ''arbitration''. If you want to work out a settlement, you'll be resolving your dispute through ''negotiation'', ''mediation'' or ''collaborative negotiation''. ''Parenting coordination'' is a hybrid process that uses elements of mediation and arbitration to resolve disputes about parenting arrangements set out in a final order, award or agreement.

If One of the criticisms that people often make about lawyers is that we are greedy and provoke conflict to make money. While that may be true of some lawyers, and certainly the advertising you want see from lawyers in the United States tends to work out support this impression, the majority of Canadian family law lawyers would rather resolve family law disputes in any way other than court. In 2017, the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family published the results of a settlement, you'll be resolving your [https://prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/handle/1880/107586/Cost_of_Dispute_Resolution_-_Mar_2018.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y study] of family law lawyers and their views of the different dispute through ''negotiation'', ''mediation'' or ''collaborative negotiation''resolution options.The research institute found that:

''Parenting coordination'' is a hybrid process that uses elements *Mediation and collaborative negotiation are viewed as the most useful dispute resolution processes for low-conflict disputes, and disputes about the care of children and parenting, child support or spousal support, and the division of property and debt.*Mediation and collaborative negotiation tend to result in longer-lasting resolutions than litigation.*Cases resolved through mediation , collaborative negotiation, and arbitration take the least amount of time to conclude, while cases that are litigated take the most amount of time to resolve disputes .*Over 90% of the lawyers using collaborative negotiation or mediation agreed that the results they achieve are in the client’s interest, compared to only about parenting arrangements set out one-third of lawyers using arbitration or litigation.*Almost all lawyers using collaborative negotiation and mediation agreed that the results they achieve are in a final orderthe interest of the client’s children, compared to lawyers using litigation.*When comparing the extent to which lawyers agree that their clients are satisfied with the results they achieve using the various dispute resolution processes, award more lawyers agreed their clients are satisfied when they use collaborative negotiation or agreementmediation than when they use litigation. In other words, the majority of family law lawyers think that collaborative negotiation, mediation and arbitration are cheaper and faster than litigation, and are more likely to produce results that are in the interests of their clients and their clients' children.