Current through Register No. 12, March 21, 2024
(a) To
be eligible for certification as a family mediator, an applicant shall have
completed an internship performed after the completion of the mediation
training required by
Fam
303.03 within the 3 years preceding the date of
application.
(b) Internship
requirements shall be:
(1) Those set forth in
(c) and (d) below for applicants not qualifying under
Fam
303.08 as family law practitioners or mental health
practitioners; and
(2) Those set
forth in (e) below for applicants qualifying under
Fam
303.08 as family law practitioners or mental health
practitioners.
(c)
Internship for applicants not qualifying as family law practitioners or mental
health practitioners shall consist of the following activities:
(1) Co-mediation and case supervision:
a. Together with a certified family mediator
who qualifies as an internship supervisor or with a mediator approved by the
Association for Conflict Resolution or a CRO as an advanced practitioner or
advanced educator member; and
b.
For the time periods specified in (d) below;
(2) The intern's drafting of at least 4
mediated agreements, written by the intern, for cases co-mediated as specified
by (1) above which:
a. Are written in
paragraph format and are not the form documents available from the judicial
branch;
b. Cover the topics
required by the courts to be addressed in temporary, permanent, and
modification agreements; and
c.
Include, for a case co-mediated during the 24-month period prior to the
intern's submission of the application for certification, at least 2 parenting
plan and at least 2 final decrees of divorce, legal separation, or civil union
dissolution covering financial issues; and
(3) The intern's demonstration of successful
domestic violence screening.
(d) Internship for applicants not qualifying
as family law practitioners or mental health practitioners shall be at least 20
hours in duration, provided that:
(1) The
applicant completes at least 16 hours of co-mediation sessions involving at
least 4 different family mediation cases, including one case requiring both a
parenting plan and a final decree covering financial issues; and
(2) The applicant completes a total of at
least 4 hours, with at least one hour per mediated case of case supervision,
including review of mediated agreements written by the intern.
(e) Internship for applicants
qualifying as family law practitioners or mental health practitioners shall
consist of the following activities:
(1)
Co-mediation and case supervision:
a. Together
with a certified family mediator who qualifies as an internship supervisor or
with a mediator approved by the Association for Conflict Resolution as an
advanced practitioner or advanced educator member; and
b. For a period of at least 10 hours,
including at least 8 hours of co-mediation and at least 2 hours of case
supervision; and
(2) The
intern's drafting of at least 2 mediated agreements for cases co-mediated as
specified by (1) above which:
a. Are written
in paragraph format and are not the form documents available from the judicial
branch;
b. Cover the topics
required by the courts to be addressed in temporary, permanent, and
modification agreements; and
c.
Include, for a case co-mediated during the 12-month period prior to the
intern's submission of the application for certification, both a parenting plan
and a final decree covering financial issues.
(f) The time spent by an intern in drafting
mediated agreements shall not be included in the calculation of hours required
to be spent in co-mediation and case supervision.
(g) After an intern completes co-mediation of
a case, the intern shall complete an "Intern's Case Summary Form" issued by the
board by providing the following information on the form, redacting personally
identifying information about the parties as necessary:
(1) The intern's legal name;
(2) A number or letter assigned by the intern
to the case summarized on the form;
(3) The month and year in which the mediation
session was held;
(4) The number of
years the parties had been married, if applicable;
(5) The ages of the children of the parties,
if any;
(6) The issues in the
case;
(7) The mediation format
used;
(8) The techniques used to
screen for domestic violence;
(9)
The name(s) of the internship supervisor and co-mediator, if any; and
(10) A written synopsis of the case, in 50
words or fewer.
#7917, eff 7-11-03; ss by #8719, eff 11-1-06; ss by #8930,
eff 7-4-07; ss by #9674, eff 4-2-10 (see Revision Note at chapter heading for
Fam 300)
