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Child-focused mediation and guardian ad litem (GAL) services
To help parents with more challenging interaction, we offer strengths-based guardian ad litem (GAL) services. We use a process called the “Co-Parenting Assets and Improvement Review” (C.A.I.R.) that allows parents to consider better ways of relating rather than simply having their parenting judged by outsiders.
Parents and attorneys can find more information on this approach at:
- UpToParents and the Co-Parenting Assets and Improvement Review (C.A.I.R.) and
- Memo to Courts, Counsel, and Parents Considering a Referral to a Co-Parenting Assets and Improvement Review (C.A.I.R.).
Parents interested in this approach should do the website work on www.UpToParents.org (in divorce cases) or www.ProudToParent.org (in paternity cases) and fill out the first of the two C.A.I.R. intake booklets. See C.A.I.R. Booklet I and
C.A.I.R Booklet II. They can then speak with their attorneys about this GAL approach or, if they have no attorneys, they can email us directly.
The preferred goal of the C.A.I.R. process is to give parents the opportunity to work together successfully as co-parents, make their own decisions, and withdraw from involvement in the legal system. The C.A.I.R. approach is only for parents who agree to considerable website and intake work and conscientious efforts at better cooperation.
