{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-1824","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-1824","heading":"Provisions applying to court-ordered mediation","body":"\n\nThe following provisions shall apply to any mediation ordered by\n\na court pursuant to Section 3 of this act:\n\n1. Mediation shall be a process in which an impartial person,\n\nthe mediator, facilitates communication between disputing parties to\n\npromote understanding, reconciliation, and settlement. Participants\n\nshall include the mediator, the parties, interested non-parties or\n\ntheir representatives, and all others present. The mediator may\n\nmeet with participants together or individually;\n\n2. The mediator shall be an advocate for settlement and use the\n\nmediation process to help the parties fully explore any potential\n\nareas of agreement. The mediator shall not serve as a judge and\n\nshall not have authority to render any decisions on any disputed\n\nissues or to force a settlement between the parties;\n\n3. The parties shall be responsible for negotiating any\n\nresolution to a dispute. Parties shall participate in mediation in\n\ngood faith, and put forth their best efforts with the intention to\n\nsettle all issues if possible. If the parties are unable to settle\n\nall issues, they shall attempt to settle as many issues as possible;\n\n4. No person with any financial or personal interest in the\n\nresult of mediation may serve as a mediator. Prior to agreeing to\n\nmediate a dispute, the mediator shall disclose any circumstances\n\nlikely to create a presumption of bias or prevent a prompt meeting\n\nwith the parties;\n\n5. Mediation sessions shall be private. Persons other than the\n\nparties and interested non-parties and their representatives may\n\nattend only with the consent of the parties, interested non-parties,\n\nand the mediator;\n\n6. Any communication relating to the subject matter of the\n\ndispute made during the mediation process by a participant or any\n\nother person present at the mediation shall be a confidential\n\ncommunication. No admission, representation, statement, or other\n\nconfidential communication made in setting up or in conducting the\n\nmediation shall be admissible as evidence or subject to discovery,\n\nexcept that, no fact independently discoverable shall be\n\nnondiscoverable solely by virtue of having been disclosed in such\n\nconfidential communication. There shall be no stenographic or\n\nelectronic record, including audio or video, of the mediation\n\nprocess unless it is agreed upon by the parties, interested non-\n\nparties, and the mediator, and it is not otherwise prohibited by\n\nlaw. No participant in the mediation proceeding, including the\n\nmediator, shall be subpoenaed or otherwise compelled to disclose any\n\nmatter disclosed in the process of setting up or conducting the\n\nmediation proceeding; and\n\n7. No subpoena, summons, complaint, petition, citation, or\n\nother process of any kind may be served upon any person who is at or\n\nnear the site of any mediation session and is there because of the\n\nmediation.","path":["OK Code","Title 12"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os12.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"dd6634792f5a22cdc574548b460f706af1f586453dd193beed0fa1aee643df92","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-1823","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-1825"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}