Arbitration is an underutilized tool in Arizona family law cases. Put simply, arbitration is a dispute resolution process where an agreed-upon third party—the arbitrator—resolves a family law dispute outside of a traditional courtroom. The parties jointly select a neutral, third party to consider the facts and evidence in the dispute, the arbitrator makes an award, and the parties are bound by the arbitrator’s decisions. Some attorneys colloquially say that arbitrators are “private judges” because it is most often attorneys in private practice that are retained to serve as arbitrators.
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