Family law finance arbitration: a new dawn

1. Arbitration has a long history or so it would seem from my researches on the internet. In the Old Testament in the First Book of Kings chapter 3 is a description of an arbitration. It was a family dispute between two women both of whom lived in the same house and both of whom gave birth to a child one of which died. Both women claimed the surviving child as their own. The dispute was heard by King Solomon. After listening to each of the women argue their case he adopted a drastic method of adjudication with which you will all be familiar. The King then awarded the child to the woman who had entreated him to deliver the child to the other woman and thus spare the child's life. Justice was done expeditiously you might say.

2. Arbitration was used by Philip II of Greece to determine a boundary dispute in c. 330 B.C. In England it is thought that arbitration was being used as early as the thirteenth century in land and commercial disputes. Over the...

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