Family Mediation
WHICH HAT DO YOU WEAR?
When you get divorced, it’s easy to fall into the roles of ex-wife and ex-husband – and all the adversarial attitudes that we often hear go along with being divorced.
By using Family Mediation, I help you to start your divorce off on the right foot. With me you wear your Mom hat and your Dad hat, working together to arrive at your customized parenting plan.
I help you work on the same team to put your children first.
My knowledge of child development guides you as we consider the options. With the input of both parents, based on the individual needs of your children’s ages, stages, strengths and limitations, your parenting plan is complete and ready for attorney review and draft, saving you time and needless billable attorney litigation.
The plan you both contribute to will have a higher likelihood of meeting your children’s needs, be well thought out, have endurance, and result in needless stressful expensive litigation and returns to court.
MEDIATE, DON’T LITIGATE
(Benefits of Mediation)
- Mediation is peaceful, not adversarial, but solution-focused. Together we identify the relevant issues and options; then we translate them into a plan with which you both are happy.
- Mediation focuses on your children’s needs rather than your rights as parents. It puts your children first as we consider how decisions will impact your children. You know your kids best and what issues and specific needs that must be addressed. Together we create a practical and customized agreement that meets your unique needs.
- Mediation is private, confidential, efficient and usually progresses very quickly to help expedite your divorce. You share in the cost of one professional rather than paying for two professionals and their billable communication with each other.
- Mediation empowers you as parents to be in complete control of your future as both engage actively in agreement-making. Your mediator will never force you to agree to anything.
- Mediated agreements have much higher compliance because you both contributed to it, you both are more satisfied and therefore more compliant, less likely to have more expensive and stressful litigation, less likely to return to court.
START YOUR DIVORCE RIGHT!
Save money. Save time. Fund your children’s college, not your lawyer’s children!
Set the tone for cooperation, compromise and wearing your Mom hat and Dad hat instead of your ex-hat.
Contact me at (952) 746-7894 to arrange for a free telephone consultation to see if Family Mediation is right for you!