Joy Rosenthal: How Divorce Mediation Actually Works

What separates mediators, Joy Rosenthal says, is not technique. It is mindset. Most divorce mediators come out of litigation, trained to win. The ones worth hiring have traded fighting for helping two people reach an agreement they can both actually live with. Joy Rosenthal is a divorce mediator, collaborative lawyer, and family-law professor at CUNY who spent about ten years representing children in foster care before she ever mediated a divorce. She has been mediating since 2006. Because sh...