{"id":11644,"date":"2025-07-12T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11644"},"modified":"2025-07-12T16:41:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:41:36","slug":"mediator-not-required-to-meeting-with-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11644","title":{"rendered":"Mediator Not Required to Meet with Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was not error for the Orphans&#8217; Court to enter an order enforcing the recommendations of a mediator when the parties had agreed to &#8220;binding mediation&#8221; and the agreed-upon mediator had consulted with both parties, even though the mediator never held a joint meeting with the parties.  <em>Uddin v. Board of Trustees for Masjid Al-Madinah<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Commonwealth\/out\/920CD24_7-11-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">920 CD 2024<\/a> (Pa. Cmwlth. 7\/11\/2025) (opinion not reported).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not error for the Orphans&#8217; Court to enter an order enforcing the recommendations of a mediator when the parties had agreed to &#8220;binding mediation&#8221; and the agreed-upon mediator had consulted with both parties, even though the mediator never &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11644\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[485],"class_list":["post-11644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-mediation","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11647,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions\/11647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}