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Neither admitted to much concern about a future relationship, nor how much damage might be done to the other, financial or otherwise.Ī couple of tough guys, each saw himself on the moral high ground, and his brother as a scoundrel. Both claimed they didn't care "if there's blood on the floor" afterward. I advised Janet and Ellen (not their real names, of course) to ask both brothers to call me-"for your sake, not for theirs, just because of the pain all this is causing you and your parents." When both brothers did call, separately, the same day, I asked whether they themselves had any goals that couldn't be met by playing out their litigation hands. The deposition process was to begin in 10 days. Cain had countered with a petition to enforce his version of the mediated agreement as a contract. Abel then filed for a court-appointed receiver to liquidate the corporation's assets he intended to purchase the assets from the receiver at book value, with the help of his wealthier wife. But when the two attorneys wrote it up, their versions of what had been agreed upon didn't match. A retired judge had spent 12 hours with them and their attorneys, culminating in a handshake agreement.
#Cain and abel brother professional
The brothers had already used the services of a professional mediator after agreeing to split up the business, which had a retail and a wholesale division (one profitable, the other barely squeaking by). Four or five of the others had gotten together, chagrined by the fact that neither Abel nor Cain had come to Mom and Dad's for Easter, and agreed to share the cost of a family business conflict-resolution facilitator-if the brothers would consent to trying it. Only two of their brothers had taken over Dad's business, and the two brothers were taking each other apart.
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The callers were two sisters in a family of nine siblings ranging in age from 35 to 53.