Divorce by Mediation: a Less Painful Path.
Your immediate tour will help you determine what it cost to live apart and, using the that information together with the current income, help you determine the amount and duration of support. We will show you how the state child support guidelines apply to your situation.
We will help you identify all of your marital assets, figure out their value, and help you to divide them fairly.
We will also help you make all of the future parenting decisions.
Mediation is conducted so that there should be no losers and one spouse should not win at the expense of the other spouse.
Mediation manages any conflict that may exist or surface. DIVORCE BY MEDIATION is a nonadversarial process helping people negotiate directly and dissolve marriages. Once the decision to divorce or separate has been made. We provide you with the opportunity to negotiate mutually beneficial terms in total privacy.
Divorce by mediation helps identify key issues concerning the division of personal and real property, support, parenting, and plans for the future. It helps eliminate the painful win lose atmosphere that is often part of all adversarial divorces. The process is a mutual search for a reasonable solution; neither party can win at the expense of the other. Resolutions must emerge from the process with the settlement created an accepted by both. Mediation can also help with specific, limited issues such as kinds of access what to do with the house or other specified issues other issues specified by you at the start of mediation.
The important aspects of divorce by mediation are that:
It is not adversarial. Your parties make the decisions. Not a Judge and not the Lawyers.
It is mutual. You both must agree on solutions, or there is no agreement.
It helps clarify areas of conflict. Most couples have some conflict. The mediator for help to limit that conflict and discuss things productively.
It gives you power. You control your own decisions over your own laws.
It is best for your children. Although discussions are tempered by the fact that you are both parents of your children and you have a continuing relationship as parents. After you have ended the spousal relationship. Most other forms of divorce negotiations forget the best interest of the children. In mediation, the best interest of the children is paramount. Always.
You owe it to yourself, your children, and your future to learn about mediation.
HOW TO PROCEED.
All you need to do is to call (973) 544-8355 begin_of_the_skype_highlightingend_of_the_skype_highlightingand arrange for a mutually convenient appointment for you and your spouse to come in for a consultation. At that time, a detailed explanation of how we proceed as described. Both of you receive the same information, and therefore each of you can rest assure that you will be on equal footing from the outset of the proceedings.
Divorce by mediation is not a legal service. The outcome of the mediation is a memorandum of understanding detailing all of your arrangements that your attorney will review and incorporate into the final legal documents. We can refer you to attorneys who have agreed to perform the services for modest fees.
WILLIAM WINSTON
Parts of the explanation of Mediation are reprinted courtesy of John M. Hayes, Ph.D. "The
Fundamentals of Family Mediation" Copyright 1978, 1989, 1991, John M.
Haynes, PhD. All rights reserved.