Mediation IS the Sensible Alternative to Litigation
Mediation works because the focus is on privately creating a settlement that brings comfort, security and peacefulness back to your family. Divorce, in and of itself, creates trauma. Add to that the stress of litigation and it compounds the trouble. A public courthouse is not usually the best place for families to make important decisions about their futures...especially when children are involved.Mediation helps you stay in control of your family's future. Although there are many excellent attorneys who can help you through your divorce in a civilized, future-focused and child-centered manner, you don’t have direct access to “the other side.” This means that negotation is often a slow, laborious and expensive process. Worse, you have no say in some very important aspects of a litigated divorce case, including: The attorney your spouse selects, the decisions the judge makes, the lengthy delays often associated with litigation and the complicated procedural aspects of the divorce process itself. Mediation helps you stay in control of your own settlement.
Mediation puts you in the driver’s seat of your own destiny. It can help your family move to the next step because it teaches parents – who are in a new co-parenting situation – to keep the lines of communication open, and to work together as a team.
