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Resolving Family Law Problems out of Court

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The Family Law Act
The act supports the resolution of family law disputes outside of court by:
*requiring lawyers to explain the different dispute resolution processes to their clients, under sections 4 and 8;,*requiring the people involved in a family law dispute to make full disclosure of the information necessary to resolve the dispute, under section 5, even when they're not in court;,*allowing parenting coordinators to be used to resolve disputes about parenting once a final order, award or agreement about children's parenting arrangements has been reached, under sections 15 to 19;,*including mediation and collaborative negotiation as dispute resolution processes to which the court can refer people, under sections 1 and 224;,*changing the rules about arbitration to better accommodate the arbitration of family law disputes, in sections 19.1 to 19.22; , and,
*allowing the court to delay a proceeding while the parties attempt to resolve a family law dispute out of court, under section 223.
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