by Paul Sandford | Oct 22, 2020
Contact us Recently I read a short story entitled “The Tale of the Merchant” [1] which gives an anecdotal account of some of the attempts of some 17th Century Indian town guards to clamp down on food smuggling during a famine. One of the suspects was a rice merchant. ...
by Paul Sandford | Sep 20, 2020
Contact us Not so long ago I struck up conversation with an Anglo-Australian lady in her early forties. In the course of telling her a little about me I mentioned that I am a civil and family mediator. This interested her greatly and she recounted her experience of...
by Suzy Miller | Sep 14, 2020
Contact us I’m going to bust a divorce mediation myth. It is the one called: “My husband/wife won’t use mediation.” https://youtube.com/watch?v=iBgwxYbzZgQ%3Frel%3D0 Now stay with me – you don’t want to be making a mistake believing a myth that could cost...
by Henry Elliston | Sep 7, 2020
Contact us This account demonstrates how good, independent financial planning can take the sting out of divorce and faciliate an acceptable and permanent settlement. I was recently working with some clients who had filed for divorce and had reached deadlock on how to...
by Paul Sandford | Aug 19, 2020
Contact us Recently I read a short story entitled “The Tale of the Merchant” (1) which gives an anecdotal account of the failed attempt by some town guards who had been given the task of clamping down on smuggling during a famine. One of the suspects was a rice...
by Paul Sandford | Jul 24, 2020
Contact us You would think it was easy to say sorry. It is a short, two syllable word and from a very early age it’s one that children are taught to say when they do something wrong. The one word that will help put things right. Back in the 70s there was a...