WHAT DID LAVOISIER DISCOVER? Lavoisier built on the work already done in the 1770s by the English scientists Henry Cavendish and Joseph Priestley. He became the first person to isolate and name the element oxygen, which is the most common element on Earth.
The spouse who has been served with the divorce/dissolution petition is called the respondent or defendant in the divorce/dissolution process. He or she must respond to (answer) the petition within a certain time (usually about three weeks).
In all other civil cases, if the parties request the use of Court-Directed Mediation as a way of resolving the dispute, a mediator from the Court-Directed Mediator Panel List is assigned to the case. The mediator does not charge for preparation time and the first 2 hours of mediation.