“I was involved in a ghastly dispute over our 4th generation family farm. My husband’s health was failing, and our 3 children were at each other’s throats. I despaired of ever regaining a normal life.
Jon facilitated discussions, and mediated endless flashpoints of dispute between 3 generations of family members, until we ended up making decisions, and producing an agreement, we could all live with. I still don’t know how, but he saved our family, and the family farm.
Months later I was moaning to a friend about the cost of getting things resolved. He gave me a hard stare before explaining that, many years previously, his family hadn’t taken the right steps, everybody “lawyered up” and the end result was that the farm they were fighting over had to be sold just to cover the legal fees. His family was destroyed and has never reconciled. “Whatever it cost was cheap!” he said.