“Rankin often recommends her clients try to work together in mediation to come up with a workable plan for their family’s individual needs so that a judge doesn’t have to make the decisions for them. ”
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“These folks don’t have a legal problem — they have a a family problem with legal implications,” Dalton, 63, said from his office on Fletcher Street.
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