SLR 24-12.221: MEDIATION WHERE POWER IMBALANCE EXISTS

1) Where there is a restraining order between the parties, a history of domestic violence or abuse, an extreme imbalance in the power relationship between the parties or other reason to believe tha t m ediation may be inappropriate, a party may contact the assigned mediator to request that the parties meet with the mediator separately, the presence of a support person during mediation, telephonic mediation, or another remedy. A mediator may exclude a support person from a session if the support person disrupts the process of mediation. 2) The mediator may arrange separate sessions, require telephonic mediation, or terminate mediation at any time if the mediator believes that issues of violence, abuse, threatening behavior, manipulation, or power imbalance make further mediation inappropriate. In any telephonic mediation, both parties will participate by telephone. NOTE: the privacy of records and confidentiality of communications in mediation are governed by ORS