Mediation or Court for a BC Estate Dispute?
Onyx Law Group · Vancouver, British Columbia
Mediation is usually encouraged over trial. In practice it often comes after a claim is started and documents are exchanged. Most family estate cases settle before trial.
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When do you tell siblings to mediate rather than litigate? I always tell them to mediate rather than to litigate. But to mediate, sometimes in order to mediate, you have to at least commence the litigation and go through the first round of document disclosure, sometimes examinations for discovery, to discover the evidence. But I always encourage for there to be settlement, via mediation or negotiation before we actually go to trial. And in fact, in my experience, most cases involving estate litigation families do actually settle before going to trial.
General information, not legal advice.
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