by Shawn Weber | Aug 8, 2019 | Children, parenting
Can you believe it’s already time for 60 million American kids to go back to school? Didn’t we just start summer? Mixed feelings are natural at this time of year for everyone. Kids are sad about summer being over so quickly. But they are likely to be...
by Shawn Weber | Jan 14, 2019 | divorce, Finances, Recession
If another recession is looming in 2019, it could greatly affect decision making during a divorce. It has been nearly a decade since the Great Recession. Since then, the U.S. economy has rebounded and then some. Unemployment is at record low levels, and people were...
by Shawn Weber | Sep 18, 2018 | Conflict Resolution, Mediation
Confidentiality has always been one of the cornerstones and significant advantages of mediation over litigation. Unlike mediation, all of the documents and statements in court are a public record, there for everyone to read and hear – including your relatives,...
by Shawn Weber | Aug 31, 2018 | Conflict Resolution, Mediation
Along the banks of the Ho Truc Bach Lake in downtown Hanoi, Vietnam is a monument sculpted from stone. It’s an image of a person with arms raised and head lowered. The monument portrays the fateful moment in October 1967 when then U.S. Navy pilot John McCain was...
by Shawn Weber | Jun 4, 2018 | Conflict Resolution, Courts, Mediation
I regularly serve as a pro tem settlement judge on the Mandatory Settlement Conference (MSC) Panel with the San Diego County Superior Court. While I enjoy helping folks through their MSCs, the help is simply too little too late for many people. Often, the preparation...