matrilineal kinship systems benefit women because they have greater support from their kin and husbands have less authority over … their wives. However, they believed these same factors may also reduce spousal cooperation. I test these hypotheses using …

have recently begun advocating for a more limited use of divorce and child custody mediation, in part due to the emergence … their clients to skip a couple of the stages that were involved in the evolution of divorce and child custody mediation … number of judges, bankruptcy courts are exploring the use of mediation to help resolve adversary proceedings, negotiate …