Pearson v. District Court, Eighteenth Judicial District, County of Arapahoe

In this original proceeding under C.A.R. 21,1 we issued a rule to show cause to review orders of the respondent District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District. The trial court ordered the petitioner, Karen K. Pearson, n/k/a Karen K. Sanders (Sanders), and her former husband, Scott R. Pearson (Pearson), to mediate disputes raised in post-dissolution of marriage proceedings. Sanders, the petitioner before us and in the dissolution proceedings below, seeks relief from the respondent trial court’s orders mandating mediation.2 The exercise of our origi*514nal jurisdiction turns on whether section…