Janie K Page

I asked her if she could help to mediate a family dispute. She seemed eager but wanted to make sure the parties involved equally wanted to go through a mediation. I explained the situation to her, that my family tried this by itself but knew having a trained mediator outside of the family would be more helpful. We emailed back and forth, we talked on the phone a little, i arranged a conversation for her and my dad. After a month, we finally sign the mediation agreement and all of a sudden she tells us of her ground rules (which I inquired about initially but she didn’t respond) and her unwarranted opinion of what she thought was unfair family dynamics. She is supposed to be an impartial mediator that focuses on working towards commonalities and agreements among the parties, not a judge telling us what she believes is just and fair. The family desperately needed help figuring out if and what we could agree upon but after a painfully long month of securing a mediator, we find out she does not seem concerned in wanting to help us in the first place. She was willing to rate her sliding scale costs to accommodate our budget which was kind. I just wish there was more than one positive thing to Unilocal about her.