Divorce mediation and neighborhood justice centers grew rapidly in the late twentieth century

Evidence

In recent years, government programs have promoted mediation for resolving disputes between divorcing couples and within neighborhoods. Many states now offer divorce mediation to promote settlements for the division of property, child custody, and visitation rights. California has mandated mediation in all such instances. Although exact figures are unavailable, experts have estimated that there were 28,000 divorce mediations in 1980 and more than 34,000 a year later, a rise of almost 25 percent. Similar growth has occurred in the use of mediation to deal with neighborhood disputes. In 1975, there were only 11 neighborhood justice centers nationwide; a decade later, there were 182, and the number has continued to increase. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1175

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s course material on how ODR/ADR relates to the formal court structure being studied in this textbook. — connects to: States adopted divorce mediation rapidly, some mandating it for custody and property disputes. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2357; Collaborative justice institutions fail to scale beyond the local or regional level — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 734

Broader Connections

• States adopted divorce mediation rapidly, some mandating it for custody and property disputes. #expands (0.92) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2357
• Collaborative justice institutions fail to scale beyond the local or regional level #complicates (0.75) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 734