Effects Of Traditional Family Arbitration And Legal Divorce On Divorcees And Their Children The Case Of Boloso Sore Wereda Wolaita Zone Southern Ethiopia

This study has made an effort to investigate the effects of traditional family arbitration and legalrndivorce on divorcees and their children. For its methodological convenience qualitative methodrnand non-probability purposive sampling techniques have been employed. Study participants havernbeen divorcees, their children and reconciled spouses after opening of file for divorce in therncourt. The last five years (2010-2014) petition provided for divorce, divorced and reconciledrnspouses data has been used as point of observation. In addition to in-depth interview FGD, keyrninformants’ interview and document analysis was done. Principal causes, prevalence, and effectsrnof divorce, legal grounds of family arbitration, appointment and removal of arbitrators,rncomposition and roles of arbitrators have been critically addressed to identify effects ofrntraditional family arbitration. Moreover, fundamental reason of the court when redirecting therncase of spouses for arbitration has been assessed to know the advantages of traditional familyrnarbitration for divorcees and their children. Divorce is negatively affecting the social, economicrnand psychological status of divorcees and their children. Traditional family arbitration isrnbelieved to be the most effective and efficient conflict resolution mechanism among spouses.rnPrincipal effects of arbitration on disputing spouses and their children are protecting unstablernfamilies from disintegration, children separating from their parents, protects likely social evilsrnrelated to divorce, reduces resource and time wastage of both litigating spouses and the court andrnshares court case overload. Potential challenges of arbitration are community’s lack ofrnunderstanding about gender equality, rights and interests of women, marginalizing women fromrnarbitration process, biased belief of women as if arbitration always favoring for men in theirrnexpense, and passing decisions in favor of men in the case common property management andrnparenting styles.rnKey words: Traditional family arbitration, court litigation and legal divorce

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