Resolve it privately. Resolve it before it costs more than it has to.
Estate disputes, trust conflicts, real estate disagreements, and business breakdowns rarely improve with time — or with litigation. Alejandro Hernandez III provides private, results-focused mediation with the law-trained judgment to navigate complexity and the discretion every sensitive matter demands.
Request Mediation Services →Estate and real estate litigation routinely extends two to five years. Mediation can resolve the same dispute in weeks or months — preserving asset value and family relationships that litigation erodes.
Court proceedings are public. Private mediation is confidential — protecting family affairs, business information, and asset details from the public record that litigation creates permanently.
Litigation is adversarial by design. For family disputes over estates, trust assets, or closely held businesses, the relational damage often outlasts the legal outcome — and cannot be recovered.
A judge decides. In mediation, the parties control the resolution — which consistently produces better-implemented, more durable outcomes than court-imposed judgments.
Where law-trained mediation makes the decisive difference.
ARH Mediation handles disputes where the subject matter — estates, trusts, real property, and closely held businesses — requires a mediator who genuinely understands both the legal framework and the underlying asset dynamics.
Conflicts arising during estate administration — among beneficiaries, between beneficiaries and personal representatives, or involving challenges to the distribution of estate assets — where a mediated resolution preserves more for all parties than protracted litigation.
- Will contests and validity challenges
- Executor removal or breach of duty claims
- Beneficiary disagreements over asset distribution
- Estate accounting and fee disputes
- Disputes over real property within estates
Conflicts between trustees and beneficiaries, among co-trustees, or involving the administration, modification, or termination of living and irrevocable trusts — where the mediator’s familiarity with fiduciary standards shapes the resolution framework.
- Trustee breach of fiduciary duty claims
- Trust accounting and distribution disagreements
- Trustee removal proceedings
- Beneficiary rights and access disputes
- Trust modification and termination conflicts
Conflicts involving real property — between buyers and sellers, landlords and tenants, co-owners, partners, or among estate beneficiaries with differing views on property disposition — resolved with the market and legal knowledge to evaluate competing positions accurately.
- Partition actions and co-ownership disputes
- Purchase and sale contract conflicts
- Landlord-tenant and commercial lease disputes
- Construction and contractor disagreements
- Boundary, easement, and title conflicts
Conflicts among business partners, shareholders, or family members over closely held company operations, ownership, governance, or exit — where the mediator’s business advisory experience allows substantive engagement with the underlying business dynamics driving the dispute.
- Partner and shareholder disputes
- Family business succession conflicts
- Operating agreement interpretation disagreements
- Business valuation and buyout disputes
- Non-compete and confidentiality conflicts
Multi-generational family conflicts over inherited assets, family business ownership, or the division of complex family wealth — where the mediator must balance legal precision, financial complexity, and the relational dynamics that formal proceedings cannot address.
- Intergenerational family property conflicts
- Inheritance and disinheritance disputes
- Gifting and loan repayment disagreements
- Family business ownership transition conflicts
- Prenuptial and postnuptial asset disputes
Disputes involving alleged breaches of fiduciary duty by trustees, executors, guardians, conservators, or professional advisors — where the mediator’s deep familiarity with fiduciary standards and estate law enables substantive evaluation of competing positions.
- Breach of fiduciary duty claims
- Conservatorship and guardianship disputes
- Professional advisor liability conflicts
- Investment management disagreements
- Self-dealing and conflict of interest claims
The case for resolution before the courtroom.
For estate, trust, real estate, and business disputes, private mediation consistently outperforms litigation on every meaningful dimension — except one party’s desire for a public fight.
Structured for resolution, not prolongation.
ARH Mediation is structured around the principle that most disputes — even deeply entrenched ones — can be resolved when the mediator brings genuine subject matter expertise, structured process, and the credibility to move parties toward workable outcomes.
Alejandro’s law-trained background in estate, trust, and real property law, combined with active advisory experience across California, New York, and Texas, positions him to evaluate the merits of competing positions — not just facilitate a conversation.
Mediations can be conducted in person at either the Beverly Hills or Manhattan offices, or remotely for multi-jurisdictional parties.
All mediation communications are protected by mediation privilege and covered under a binding confidentiality agreement executed prior to the first session.
Alejandro serves as a neutral mediator — not as an advocate for any party. Parties may be represented by counsel throughout, or may mediate directly.
Unlike general commercial mediators, Alejandro brings direct expertise in estate, trust, real estate, and business law — enabling substantive engagement with the dispute, not just process facilitation.
Confidential intake to understand the nature of the dispute, parties involved, and relevant background — including a conflict of interest check to confirm Alejandro can serve as neutral mediator for the matter.
A binding confidentiality and mediation agreement is executed by all parties prior to any substantive session — establishing the legal framework for privilege protection and the voluntary nature of the process.
Each party provides a confidential pre-mediation statement outlining their position, key facts, and interests — allowing Alejandro to prepare substantively and identify the primary areas of potential resolution before the first session.
Joint and private sessions structured to surface underlying interests, clarify factual disputes, and move parties toward workable resolution — with Alejandro actively engaging on the merits, not merely facilitating dialogue.
Upon resolution, the terms are memorialized in a written settlement agreement coordinated with parties’ counsel — producing a legally binding, durable outcome that parties have agreed to rather than had imposed upon them.
Mediation that goes beyond process facilitation.
The difference between a mediator who moves paper and one who moves disputes is subject matter depth — the ability to engage substantively with what the dispute is actually about.
A J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law and 20-plus years of prior legal practice mean Alejandro engages with the legal dimensions of every dispute — evaluating positions, identifying weaknesses, and helping parties understand the realistic range of outcomes if the matter proceeds to litigation.
As a Certified Probate & Trust Specialist with active advisory practice in estate and trust matters, Alejandro brings genuine subject matter depth to the disputes where it is most consequential — trustee conflicts, beneficiary disagreements, and probate property disputes.
Licensed as a real estate broker in both California and New York, Alejandro brings accurate market knowledge to property disputes — enabling substantive evaluation of valuation claims, disposition strategy disagreements, and market-condition arguments that general mediators cannot assess.
Extensive advisory experience with closely held businesses and family enterprises means Alejandro understands the operational and relational dynamics that drive business disputes — going beyond the legal claims to the business reality beneath them.
With active presence and licensure across California, New York, and Texas, Alejandro can serve as mediator for disputes involving parties and assets in multiple states — without the logistical and jurisdictional complications that arise when the mediator lacks genuine multi-market standing.
Every mediation engagement is governed by a binding confidentiality agreement and protected by mediation privilege across all three operating jurisdictions. High-net-worth estate and business disputes require this standard of discretion — and it is the baseline, not an add-on.
The goal of mediation is not compromise for its own sake. It is a resolution that both parties can live with — arrived at before the process of reaching it destroys what remains.— Alejandro Hernandez III, J.D. · Founder, ARH Mediation Services
Mediation delivered through a dedicated practice.
ARH Mediation Services — part of the ARH advisory ecosystem.
Mediation is delivered through ARH Mediation Services, a dedicated practice within the ARH advisory group. This structure allows Alejandro to serve as a neutral mediator in disputes where parties may include clients of other ARH entities — maintaining clear separation between advisory and mediation roles.
For disputes that arise within an existing advisory relationship, Alejandro coordinates with all parties to ensure appropriate role separation — recommending alternative neutral mediators where a conflict exists, and engaging directly only where neutrality can be maintained without question.
Los Angeles, CA 90067
In-person and remote sessions available
New York, NY 10017
In-person and remote sessions available
across California, New York, Texas,
and international jurisdictions
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Mediation inquiries are handled directly and confidentially. An initial consultation to assess suitability for mediation carries no obligation and is conducted under full confidentiality from the outset.