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Question

Your brother Phil comes to you asking your advice based on what you have learned in your paralegal training. He recently bought a house, only to find that his neighbor Bill to the west has just put up a fence that he thinks is about 10 feet on his property. Phil did not get a property line survey when he bought the house.

Also, Alice, his neighbor to the east, is parking an old junk car on Phil's lawn on that side of his property.

Phil wants to solve these problems independently without getting help from a legal advisor/attorney.

Given all you have learned in class, provide him with detailed advice concerning his options using unilateral ADR techniques for each scenario. Consider unilateral strategies and gambits, and what steps he should take to resolve each issue.

1. Draft a letter to Phil, advising him of each possible unilateral resolution he might use to address this issue with his neighbors.

2. Analyze which unilateral resolution technique is more effective in resolving the fence problem.

3. Examine which unilateral resolution technique is more effective in resolving the junk car parking issue.

4. List three reasons to support your conclusion on which process is more effective.

5. Compare whether Phil should use other ADR tactics instead of unilateral resolutions for these problems.