}}Arbitration is a dispute resolution process in which the parties hire a neutral third party, a an ''family law arbitrator'', to make a <span class="noglossary">decisiondecisions</span> resolving some or all of the legal issues in their dispute. The parties sign an ''arbitration agreement'' to start the process in which they agree, among other things, to be bound by the arbitrator's decision. While the job of a mediator is to help two people work towards a toward their own resolution of their family law dispute that they make for themselves, the arbitrator's job is to <span class="noglossary">act</span> like a judge and make a decision resolving the a legal dispute, after hearing the evidence and listening to the arguments of each party. People who work as arbitrators are usually trained professionals who qualify as "family law dispute resolution professionals" under the ''Family Law Act'', meaning that they meet specific experiential and educational standards set out in the Family Law Act Regulation. Lawyers who are "family law arbitrators" are specially accredited to arbitrate family law disputes by the [http://www.lawsociety.bc.ca Law Society of British Columbia].