}}Arbitration is a dispute resolution process in which the parties hire a neutral third party, an ''arbitrator'', to make a <span class="noglossary">decisions</span> resolving some or all of the legal issues in their dispute. While the job of a mediator is to help people work toward their own resolution of their family law dispute, the arbitrator's job is to <span class="noglossary">act</span> like a judge and make a decision resolving a legal dispute, after hearing the evidence and listening to the arguments of each party.