Mediation is a sensible alternative for couples with irreconcilable differences who choose to unravel the business that was their relationship.
Mediation allows couples to get on with the rest of their lives sooner. The mediation process takes less time, and costs less money than litigation.
While a couple with children may be ending a relationship as spouses, the couple will continue to be parents for years to come. Parents who care for the best interest of their children work to reduce their children's exposure to their parents' dispute and to decrease their children's stress. Mediation assists parents to minimize emotional trauma to their children.
The issues of child custody and visitation, child and/or spousal support, and property settlement can be discussed in mediation. An agreement can be drafted by a mediator. Once signed by the parties, the agreement is binding.
Couples who have retained attorneys and begun divorce proceedings, may still use mediation to negotiate issues that will otherwise be decided by a stranger in a black robe.
In the State of Maryland couples who are divorcing are ordered to attend mediation before being able to appear in front of a judge.
The alternative to mediation, litigation, is adversarial, expensive, time consuming, and stressful. The stress often spills over onto children, friends, and co-workers.
Couples do not give up legal rights by participating in mediation before or during litigation. Furthermore, they stand to benefit with mediation because they can maintain control of the process, resolve their issues and leave mediation with a fair, practical agreement with which they are comfortable living.
Mediation allows couples to get on with the rest of their lives sooner. The mediation process takes less time, and costs less money than litigation.
While a couple with children may be ending a relationship as spouses, the couple will continue to be parents for years to come. Parents who care for the best interest of their children work to reduce their children's exposure to their parents' dispute and to decrease their children's stress. Mediation assists parents to minimize emotional trauma to their children.
The issues of child custody and visitation, child and/or spousal support, and property settlement can be discussed in mediation. An agreement can be drafted by a mediator. Once signed by the parties, the agreement is binding.Couples who have retained attorneys and begun divorce proceedings, may still use mediation to negotiate issues that will otherwise be decided by a stranger in a black robe.
In the State of Maryland couples who are divorcing are ordered to attend mediation before being able to appear in front of a judge.
The alternative to mediation, litigation, is adversarial, expensive, time consuming, and stressful. The stress often spills over onto children, friends, and co-workers.
Couples do not give up legal rights by participating in mediation before or during litigation. Furthermore, they stand to benefit with mediation because they can maintain control of the process, resolve their issues and leave mediation with a fair, practical agreement with which they are comfortable living.
