Abstract
Family disputes mean any disputes occurred among the family members. Family disputes normally being resolved by litigation or mediation as other alternatives. Researches depicted that, mediation is the worth consideration to resolve family disputes compared with litigation. Nevertheless, not all types of family disputes are appropriate to be mediated such as divorce with the history of domestic violence. This article is essentially aimed at reviewing on how family disputes are being resolved in Malaysia and how family disputes involving violence being mediate in Malaysia. The methods being adopted are doctrinal research. The finding of this research is to fill in the gap in the literature of the research on mediation in family disputes in Malaysia. Thus, this article concludes by suggesting for improvement of the mediation process and proposed new guidelines to screen for violence in the mediation process in order to resolve family disputes involving violence in Malaysia.