What is a Resolution Management Conference?
The purpose of a Resolution Management Conference (“RMC”) is two-fold: first, to assist the Court with case management, to keep cases moving along to final resolution, and second, to assist the parties to identify what matters can be readily agreed upon, and put those agreements on the record, and then determine which are in dispute and how that particular dispute may best be resolved. The concept is to keep these family court matters in a non-adversarial posture as long as possible, based on the premise that parties generally can live better with any solution they come up with between themselves, as opposed to a resolution decreed by a judge who does not know you, and who will not have to live with the results of whatever the final decision is. It is your chance, in a court supervised forum, to reach agreements, or not, as you and the other party choose. What is an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Conference? The purpose of this Court ordered ADR Settlement Conference is to encour
