Family Feud Resolution Mediation

Mediation – Real Estate – Private Court – Family Law – Dispute Resolution- Law Suit – Child-Care.

San Francisco, CA. Mark and Sunny, and their two children, lived with Sunny’s parents in a house they bought with some financial help from Sunny’s parents. The Grandparents pitched in with the cleaning, cooking and child-care.

Something happened and what had been a happy household became a war zone! Mark had enough and told Sunny’s parents that they had to move out of his house. They moved out, but they did not agree that it was his house! As far as they were concerned the help they gave in buying the house meant it was half theirs and the ongoing cleaning/childcare service they provided were the equal to one half of a monthly mortgage payment. Mark and Sunny said that the money towards the down payment was a long promised gift and the help around the house was to off-set rent and food. Mark and Sunny said they owed nothing!

The parties sued each other. Legal Fees! Lawsuits! Depositions! Just before trial the Judge ordered the parties to mediate and they picked Liaise. At mediation the experienced Liaise mediator explored with the parties the root of their problem and helped them to “get beneath” their postures and positions. The parties, for the first time, realized that the spark that had lit this powder keg was the fact that Mark had opened a jar of peanut butter that his mother-in-law had been planning to take with her overseas for some friends. Once that fact was aired, the “miracle of mediation” occurred and it was as if the clouds parted allowing the sun to shine. Within 2 hours of that moment the entire case was settled in a manner that was fair and equitable to all involved. Liaise Mediated Solutions^® is the sensible short circuit to expensive lawsuits!