Private divorce mediation services, an ideal solution. Michigan divorce mediator
Navigate Your Divorce with Compassionate Mediation
The divorce process is overwhelming, difficult and challenging in so many ways. Most couples assume it requires lawyers to assist in the process.
The fact is the law does not require a divorce be facilitated by lawyers at all.
Client-centered private divorce mediation services offers greater benefits in divorce over a directive or law-centered mediation process.
Key Factors in Private Divorce Mediation
- Less stressful and less expensive than traditional divorce litigation
- Minimizes the negative impact which is better for the children
- Private and Confidential mediated divorce
- Flexible and tailored to the client's specific needs.
- Assists divorcing spouses in reaching a fair and equitable agreement based on their unique, personal circumstances
Benefits of Client-Centered Divorce Mediation
Benefits of Client-Centered Divorce Mediation
Client-centered mediation promotes honesty, self-reliance, respect and empowerment. It addresses all of your concerns and fears, so that you can make well informed decisions.
Client-centered mediation takes the emotional, financial and social distress of the divorce into consideration throughout the process. Mediation is the ideal solution to a legally compliant uncontested divorce.
ROLE OF THE MEDIATOR IN A DIVORCE AND HOW THE PROCESS WORKS
Compassionate Client-Centered Divorce Mediation
- Assists divorcing clients in achieving a resolution that is acceptable to both through engaging in discussions focusing on the present and how to best plan for the future.
- Examines their interests and explores various options for a settlement that addresses everyone's needs including those of their children.
- Facilitates and actively engages you in a series of discussions surrounding all the necessary issues to be resolved in the divorce (parenting plan, time sharing, child support, alimony, distribution of property, etc.).
- Uses a variety of conflict resolution techniques to help you communicate, understand each other's interests, and negotiate when there are areas of disagreement.
- Provides guidance about the financial matters relating to your divorce so you know what your financial picture will look like moving forward.
- Encourages you to seek other professional neutral experts(CPAs, appraisers, etc.) when appropriate, to assist you in obtaining information needed to empower you to make important decisions.
- Explores ideas, bring options to the table and work with you to develop fair and equitable solutions.
- Helps you come to mutually acceptable agreements on all of the required issues to peacefully end your marriage out of court.
- Drafts your agreement, in Michigan this is known as the Consent Judgement of Divorce, which is needed to file with the court. Guides or assists you completing the other forms necessary for you to file and finalize your divorce with the court "per Pro", means yourself.
Mediation can resolve all issues necessary for your divorce
The issues will vary in complexity based on your unique situation and may include, but are not limited to:
- A parenting plan outlining parental responsibilities and time sharing arrangements for co-parenting your children post-divorce (custody arrangements).
- Child support which is the financial support each parent will provide the children.
- The division of marital assets and liabilities (also known as equitable distribution of community property.
- If appropriate, how much, and for how long a client will pay or receive alimony - also referred to as spousal support, which is determined not only by need, but also ability to pay.
Along with the four main issues listed above, a client-centered mediator can also help couples resolve a host of other important issues such as who will care for the family pet, etc.
How Long Does The Divorce Mediation Process Take?
Every mediator's process (if they have one) is different, so I can only speak to how long divorce mediation takes working with me. The Most couples require 2 to 5 mediation sessions on average, the family mediation process takes 3-6 months from start to finish.
That time is spent gathering information and documents, negotiating the issues and the mediator uses what is mutually agreed upon in drafting the divorce agreement (which when filed with the court is referred to as the Consent Judgement of Divorce).