A separation is a difficult and stressful time for you and your family. In fact, a divorce can be a terrible time! It’s scary and sad. You feel very emotional and filled with uncertainty. There are the obvious concerns how you will raise your children and how a separation will affect your financial security for the future.
A separation can be amicable and cooperative with the services as a family lawyer Mediator, without the stress and conflict of litigation. Further, you do not have to feel like you are bankrupting yourself, as court can be very expensive.
Mediation should be the starting point to any separation and to reaching a fair settlement. Mediation provides a safe and objective process to reach a resolution to your divorce and parenting matters. In mediation you meet in a neutral environment. Mediation is a voluntary, cooperative and confidential process where you and the other parent work with the mediator to create your own parenting plan.
Mediation provides a better solution for you and your family, with a resolution of the uncertainties of your separation for you and your children. The mediator strives to understand your perspective and helps you to provide options to reach an amicable settlement for your family.
You can participate in the mediation with or without lawyers. The goal of a successful mediation is to reach a mutual agreement that is unique for your family, your finances, and your future. After evaluating your options, you and only you make the decisions that become the final agreement.
At the conclusion of the mediation process you should receive a complete report of your settlement ready to be reviewed and drafted by family lawyers of your choice. Further, couples will often share the costs of the mediation and preparing the Separation Agreement reached in the mediation to reduce the legal fees.
Mediation is a low-cost, efficient, peaceful, and effective alternative to matrimonial litigation to bring closure to your separation and divorce.
