PrepTest 120 - Section 2 - Passage 3 - Question 17

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Individual family members have been assisted in resolving disputes arising from divorce or separation, property division, or financial arrangements, through court-connected family mediation programs, which differ significantly from court adjudication. ███

Intro Topic · Family mediation v. court adjudication

Two very different options to resolve family disputes

Court Adjudication · Binding decisions; formal rules; open to public

Family mediation · Private; less formal; non-binding decisions

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Argument for court adjudication · Has numerous advantages over family mediation

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Advantage 1 · Judges incorporate broader social values

Not sure what this means...

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Advantage 2 · Mediation might erroneously assume balanced power dynamics

If one party has more power over the other, then mediation may be inappropriate.

Argument 4 · FM has no formal record of facts

Argument 5 · FM does not contribute to precedent

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Author’s Argument · FM is better than courts

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Method 1 Counter argument · FM can help families bond and resolve emotional conflicts

Evidence · Studies show FM success

Passage Style

Critique or debate

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Unsupported. Nothing in the passage indicates that all parties are equally satisfied with the results of court adjudication. The reasons for supporting court adjudication are described in P2, and none of these reasons have anything to do with how satisfied parties are with the results.

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Unsupported. The passage does not indicate that supporters of court adjudication see this as a weakness of family mediation. P2 shows what the supporters of court adjudication see as the weaknesses of family mediation; failure to address underlying emotional issues is not one of these weaknesses.

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This is supported at the end of P2. Here, we see that the supporters of court adjudication think that a downside of family mediation is that the cases will not help with the development of legal precedent, meaning that these cases won’t help to resolve similar disputes among different families in the future.

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Anti-supported. One of the benefits of court adjudication is that the court protects those who have less bargaining power, which shows that court adjudication does not assume that the parties to a dispute have relatively equal bargaining power.

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Unsupported. We know that court hearings are generally open to the public; we don’t know if supporters of court adjudication think that this should be the case.

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