Arbitration should be used when the parties have an issue or series of issues that need to be determined and it is not possible to reach agreement directly or via other out of court solutions. Arbitration is often seen as being particularly useful when the parties need a decision made on a discrete issue such as whether a pension should be shared, and how pensions should be divided in a financial remedies’ context; or for example whether a parent should take a child on holiday from a children law perspective. Arbitration is therefore seen as a route to getting a matter resolved quickly and very often, less stressfully and less expensively.