Mediation Divorce

Mediation sessions are confidential and conducted in the privacy of the mediator's office.

A series of meetings are conducted over a period of weeks with the mediator to address such issues as how you and your spouse will parent your children, divide your property and debts and provide for the ongoing support of your children.

Each party usually has a lawyer available to consult with throughout the mediation process - usually outside of mediation sessions - though in some cases your lawyer may accompany you to the mediation sessions.

Once you have reached an agreement on all issues, the mediator prepares the Settlement Agreement that will be filed with the court.

Many couples simply assume that mediation will not work for them as they are no longer friends, and automatically take their disagreements to adversarial attorneys to battle it out in the court system. Actually, mediation is so successful that many judges actually require it as a way to avoid bringing your case to court. Judges acknowledge that mediation is a powerful means of avoiding a costly and lengthy court case, and that mediation is the most rational approach to problem solving.

When you reach agreement through mediation, you control your choices – not the attorneys and not the judge. You remain in complete control, and your divorce is more likely to be resolved to your satisfaction. Fees for using a Mediation method are typically just a small percentage of those incurred in an adversarial case battled out in court.