Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Hi, this is Ray Hrdlicka with Attorneys.Media and today we’re sitting with Bill Leininger, an attorney who specializes in a very unique area of law called divorce mediation. He practices in Staten Island, New York, and we’re going to be sitting down with him talking about all the intricacies […]
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Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL If you don’t try, you don’t have a consultation with an experienced divorce mediator, you and your spouse ask the tough questions. How knowledgeable is this attorney? How many years of practice has this attorney had just in the divorce field? And you leave that…. I
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Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL So, I went to law school, and I went into family law because I wanted to help people. And to see what we were doing, lawyers were intentionally or inadvertently, depending upon how bad of a human being they were, they wanted to pour salt on
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Why wouldn’t everybody use divorce mediation and stay out of court? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL That’s the reason why I tell everyone, you know, you really have to be kind of dumb not to at least explore divorce mediation because the benefits are so
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media There’s divorce lawyers or divorce mediators and so there’s competition. So what would you say to somebody who walks in your office? Why should they use you versus the guy down the street? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Well, I don’t know if the guy
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media So, who pays for the cost of a divorce mediation? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Great question. Common sense. If we have a house husband or a housewife and they’ve been taking care of their kids, maybe the most important job either one has, and
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media And I think what I’m getting from your description and detail of divorce mediation is the fairness. Am I correct? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Yeah, and of course, you know, the fairness is in the eye of the beholder, but let me tell you
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The One Issue Before Divorce Mediation Starts Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Tell me about the process… what happens when somebody says, “yes let’s use a divorce mediator“. Tell me what you do. Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL 98% of the time that’s as a result of that free half-hour
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Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL The current state of the law is the judge, when they have the preliminary conference, which is the first time, the judge, the case is called in court, in other words, one party served the other one with the summons and complaint for divorce, the other
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media If one of the parties, either spouses, says, I object to you having a lawyer there, then the other person cannot bring a lawyer, is that correct? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Mediation, yes, mediation is all about self-empowerment of the spouses, not the judge,
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