Family mediation week - Top tips for parents who separate or divorce
Family mediation is a process in which an independent, professionally trained mediator helps you work out arrangements for children and finances following separation.
Mediation can also be helpful when arrangements you have made before need to change, particularly as your children grow up. It is important to recall that mediation helps you stay in control.
No-one will make you do anything against your wishes.
The FJYPB members are children and young people with experience of family law proceedings. When thinking about how to separate or divorce, it is important to consider how to help your child adjust to the changes, just as you do.
The FJYPB have devised these top tips for parents to help them think about matters from their child’s perspective. Change can throw up all sorts of issues, but these top tips come straight from children and young people with experience of family law proceedings. They can help you think about how you make speak to your child about the separation and understand what it means to them.
This can help you all adapt to the change process with resilience, insight and strength.