<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><img width="589" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" src="cid:223237C1-82A9-40D5-B4CE-1611DE03ADE3"><div dir="ltr"><div><p align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size="5">January 24, 2018</font></p><p align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size="5">1912 Community Center (Moscow, Idaho)</font></p><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="700"><tbody><tr><td><p align="justify" style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Arial" size="3">Moscow attorney Jennifer Ewers discussed "The Benefits of Mediation in High Conflict Family Law Cases" at the League of Women Voters of Moscow forum noon-1 p.m. Wednesday (Jan. 24 ) in the Fiske Room of Moscow's 1912 Community Center. This presentation addressed the benefits of mediation versus litigation in family law cases. The conventional litigation process is predicated on an adversarial “win-lose” model in which it is assumed that the parties must fight against each other for their “rights.” Even when the parties believe their intentions are reasonable, their lawyers’ job in the litigation process is to fight for their respective clients’ interests, which often results in the parties’ focusing on doing as much damage to the other as possible. Their children are put in the middle and unintentionally made victims of their parents’ battle. Evidence is clear that conflict between parents has a long-term damaging impact on children who are dealing with their parents' divorce. In contrast to litigation, mediation contains the conflict between parents, focuses the parties on what is best for their children and allows disputing parents to resolve their differences in a less adversarial manner that minimizes their children’s exposure to conflic</font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></center></div></div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/LWV/High_Conflict_Family_Law_Cases_012418/">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/LWV/High_Conflict_Family_Law_Cases_012418/</a><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>