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Family

Apr. 15, 2003

Collaborative Divorce Plan Provides Separation Skills

Forum Column - By Ron M. Supancic - As Chief Justice Warren Burger stated in 1984, "The entire legal profession ... has become so mesmerized with the stimulation of the courtroom contest that we tend to forget that we ought to be healers of conflict ... Trial by adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood ... Our system has become too costly, too painful, too destructive, too inefficient for truly civilized people."

        Forum Column
        
        By Ron M. Supancic
        
        As Chief Justice Warren Burger stated in 1984, "The entire legal profession ... has become so mesmerized with the stimulation of the courtroom contest that...

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