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Sample language may or may not be consistent with current law or rules of court. Any person involved in a legal proceeding would be wise to obtain competent local counsel with recent experience in the relevant area of law as soon as possible. The Joint Disposition Conference Report was designed as a tool to assist counsel and parties in achieving resolution of the issues in this dissolution proceeding. In order for it to be a useful tool, counsel and parties must make a good faith effort to negotiate. Such effort requires, at a minimum, that counsel for both parties, and the parties themselves, unless good cause exists for the parties to be excused, meet in person to discuss terms of settlement, exchange pertinent information and narrow the issues to be addressed at the final hearing.