AdviceNow issues helpful guide on how to get the best out of family mediation
When looking how to decide the terms of a split or divorce emotions can run high, at an already stressful time. Mediation offers the option to meet together with your previous partner and a family mediator, to help get important issues sorted.
A family mediator has been trained to help you put your feelings aside and focus on the practical issues that need to be sorted out.
Family Mediation can be an incredibly powerful tool to efficiently and quickly navigate a family break up, divorce or separation. Going through the family court is most certainly not the only option and can be protracted, highly stressful and costly.
Family mediation and the new move towards the innovative hybrid family mediation (with family lawyer involvement) can help if you are a separating or divorcing couple who are are struggling to agree with your ex-partner (or another family member) about what is going to happen in the future.
This may involve ascertaining what will happen to your home, your financial affairs and money, children, pensions or any other issues. It does not matter if you were married, in a civil partnership, living together, or never did any of these things. The AdviceNow guide explains in clear and user-friendly language what family mediation is and how it could help you. You family solicitor should also help to explain the best course of action for you and elaborate on any terminology or processes which may be harder to understand. Always feel free to ask questions.
You can click here to view the AdviceNow website article on using family mediation after a break up.
Please note that this article and link are not substitutes for legal advice.