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Bruce R. Cohen

Bruce R. Cohen

Retired Maricopa County Superior Court Judge (2005–2025) and family law mediator with Arizona Mediation Institute.

Aug 13, 2026

19:47
Is that helpful to you? Is that unhelpful? Do you think that's a good idea? Maybe not a good idea?
19:54
No, that's incredibly sound advice.
19:57
When somebody is facing anticipative litigation, and, and even if they're well into the litigation, they could, uh, incorporate or employ this approach even if they haven't used it up till now.
20:10
But certainly if they're anticipating a, a future parenting case or there's one that's just starting, a, the following approach, which is very much aligned with what you just said, Bill, is appropriate.
20:26
Almost all jurisdictions base their parenting laws on the notion of this concept called best interests.
20:35
You can see that term international.
20:38
Mm.

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39:23
So in your experience then, and when we get to those cases that are more high conflict, they are coming back to court a lot more often, is there kind of a pattern that you see? Is there, like, an on-ramping to that, that, that a judge is getting a clue, like, "Ooh, this might go really high conflict," or, "This might be a challenging case"?

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