Familia, conflictos familiares y mediación


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En tiempos rápidos y complejos marcados por la modernidad, nuevas formas de comunicación se imponen. Los vínculos humanos se tornan frágiles, pues la realidad es distinta a la que proyecta el mundo virtual. Los deseos de felicidad inmediata —aquí y ahora— aumentan, y de forma desmedida se busca en las relaciones de pareja aquella satisfacción. La familia se resquebraja; los niños, la razón de ser de la solidez de la familia, quedan desamparados en el afán de búsqueda de amor de sus padres. Esta obra propone alternativas para satisfacer las necesidades más profundas de la pareja y la familia, así como las herramientas que las parejas o padres deben conocer para hacer frente a los conflictos que el mundo moderno trae. Sin duda, contiene todo lo que cualquier persona debe saber, antes, durante y después del matrimonio. Johanna Ponce Alburquerque (1981) es doctora en Derecho y Magíster en Ciencias de la Familia con especialidad en Mediación por la Universidad Santiago de Compostela (España). También es Magíster en Derecho Administrativo por la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Ecuador) y es abogada por la Universidad Central del Ecuador. Ha sido profesora de Métodos Alternativos de Solución de Conflictos en la Universidad Internacional SEK (Ecuador) y actualmente es profesora de Derecho de Familia de la Universidad de Las Américas (Ecuador). Es directora del Centro de Mediación Mediatores (N. 66) que funciona en Quito, Ecuador. Ha dictado varios cursos en Iberoamérica sobre la gestión del conflicto para lograr mejores relaciones de convivencia en distintos espacios.




What Is a Family Justice System For?


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Does a justice system have a welfare function? If so, where does the boundary lie between justice and welfare, and where can the necessary resources and expertise be found? In a time of austerity, medical emergency, and limited public funding, this book explores the role of the family justice system and asks whether it has a function beyond decision-making in dispute resolution. Might a family justice system even help to prevent or minimise conflict as well as resolving dispute when it arises? The book is divided into 4 parts, with contributions from 22 legal scholars working across Europe, Australia, Argentina and Canada. - Part 1 looks at what constitutes a family justice system in different jurisdictions, and how a welfare element is included in the legal framework. - Part 2 looks at those engaged with a family justice system as professionals and users, and explores how far private ordering is encouraged in different countries. - Part 3 looks at new ways of working within a family justice system and raises the question of whether the move towards privatisation derives from the intrinsic value of individual autonomy and acceptance of responsibility in family disputes, or whether it is also a response to the increasing burden on the state of providing a welfare-minded family justice system. - Part 4 explores recent major changes of direction for the family justice systems of Australia, Argentina, Turkey, Spain, and Germany.




Digital Family Justice


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The editors' earlier book Delivering Family Justice in the 21st Century (2016) described a period of turbulence in family justice arising from financial austerity. Governments across the world have sought to reduce public spending on private quarrels by promoting mediation (ADR) and by beginning to look at digital justice (ODR) as alternatives to courts and lawyers. But this book describes how mediation has failed to take the place of courts and lawyers, even where public funding for legal help has been removed. Instead ODR has developed rapidly, led by the Dutch Rechtwijzer. The authors question the speed of this development, and stress the need for careful evaluation of how far these services can meet the needs of divorcing families. In this book, experts from Canada, Australia, Turkey, Spain, Germany, France, Poland, Scotland, and England and Wales explore how ADR has fallen behind, and how we have learned from the rise and fall of ODR in the Rechtwijzer about what digital justice can and cannot achieve. Managing procedure and process? Yes. Dispute resolution? Not yet. The authors end by raising broader questions about the role of a family justice system: is it dispute resolution? Or dispute prevention, management, and above all legal protection of the vulnerable? This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's International Arbitration online service.




Mediation


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Mediation provides an attractive alternative to resolving disputes through court proceedings. Mediation promises just results in the interest of all parties concerned, a reduction of the court caseload, and cost savings for the parties involved as well as for the treasury. The European Directive on Mediation has given mediation in Europe new momentum by establishing a common framework for cross-border mediation. Beyond Europe, many states have tried in recent years to answer the question whether, and if so, how mediation should be regulated at a national and international level. The aim of this book is to promote the understanding and discussion of regulatory issues by presenting comparative research on mediation. It describes and analyses the law and practice of mediation in twenty-two countries. Europe is represented by chapters on mediation in Austria, Bulgaria, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal and Spain. The world beyond Europe is analysed in chapters on mediation in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Switzerland and the USA. Against this background, further chapters on fundamental issues identify possible regulatory models and discuss central principles of mediation law and practice. In particular, the work considers harmonisation and diversity in the law of mediation as well as the economic and constitutional problems associated with privatising civil justice. To the extent available, empirical research is used as a point of reference in the critical analysis.




Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives of Marital Breakdown


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Divorce has long been viewed as a single phenomenon affecting two individuals without considering the framework conditions in which it occurs. Due to the increase of divorce rates in the past decades researchers have changed their perspective and have concentrated on the view of divorce as a personal experience that is greatly affected by the socials and economic environment. The aim of this thesis is to investigate divorce that has become a mass phenomenon in our present society. The assumption is that in order to understand the grounds for divorce and its consequences, we have to view divorce as a phenomenon that occurs at the intersection of personal, socio-economic and legal factors. Family disputes involve persons who have interdependent and continued relati- ships and arise in a context of distressing emotions. Separation and divorce affect all the members of the family, especially children. The study presents a comprehensive analysis of divorce as a psychological process that is situated within a social and a legal context. It presents a comprehensive view of divorce as a psychosocial, economic and legal phenomenon and contains a review of the research literature about divorce and its consequences for parents and children. Moreover, it describes divorce by proposing conceptual frames and explanatory models.




Research Handbook on Family Justice Systems


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Bringing together current research from a diverse range of jurisdictions on family law, the Research Handbook on Family Justice Systems addresses the aims and boundaries of family justice systems. Delineating the common purpose of family law to achieve fairness for groups of people who live or have lived together, this Research Handbook is concerned with the rules referred to as ‘family law’, but also with the institutions comprising the operating system.




Genesis del consejo


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Si gestionar una empresa no es un camino de rosas, gobernar una organización familiar suele tener alguna que otra espina de más por la peculiar mezcla de responsabilidades, trabajo y relaciones personales que en ella se producen. En este marco resulta aún más indispensable contar con un buen consejo de administración que sea capaz de decidir, con estrategia y sensatez y no con el corazón y las emociones de los lazos de sangre, el camino a seguir. Los consejos de administración de las empresas familiares han de tener las competencias, los procesos y las estructuras necesarias para responsabilizarse de la marcha de la empresa ante los accionistas, por muy familiares que estos sean. El consejo es siempre el responsable frente a los accionistas del resultado obtenido. Con el fin de guiar y explicar cómo lograr un buen consejo de administración, José María Navarro-Rubio y Josep Tàpies presentan un práctico manual de un órgano indispensable para la supervivencia y el crecimiento de la empresa familiar. Tal y como dichos autores explican, «ningún consejo de administración es totalmente inútil. Y, por lo general, basta con que el principal responsable ejecutivo quiera moverlo –trate los temas relevantes que afectan a la empresa– y con que el presidente quiera que funcione, para que sea bueno».




Conference Report


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Análisis de conflictos familiares


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Guía sobre el análisis del conflicto familiar desde una perspectiva sistémica. Dirigido a aquellos profesionales que trabajan con familias y que, por lo tanto, tienen contacto directa o indirectamente con conflictos familiares diversos. Se estructura en dos partes, diferenciadas pero totalmente complementarias: una parte teórica de introducción al análisis del conflicto desde el enfoque sistémico; y otra parte más práctica, que consta de un caso de conflicto familiar descrito, a modo de relato autorreflexivo, por la mediadora. Además, se ofrece todo un conjunto de herramientas y recursos que pueden resultar útiles para analizar un conflicto familiar.




The Role of Self-determination in the Modernisation of Family Law in Europe


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This book includes some of the papers presented and discussed at the European Regional Conference of the International Society of Family Law (ISFL), held in Tossa de Mar and Girona on the 9th and 10th of October 2003.\n