When you decide that it is time to end your marriage, if you have children, it is going to have a significant impact on their lives and their development. When parents separate and establish new households and then move on to new partners, it can be challenging for your children to process all the changes [...]
Regardless of the level of conflict in your divorce, when the marriage ends, parents must find a new way of relating to each other. Couples who choose mediation as the venue for dissolving their marriage gain the advantage of learning about the importance of healthy communication. They also gain valuable skills about how to resolve [...]
People often assume that divorce mediation is only effective when both parties are in complete agreement (or close to complete agreement) about how they wish to proceed. Just because the two of you are not getting along, however, does not preclude the option of mediation. In fact, if you and your spouse are struggling to [...]
The myth of the contentious, high-conflict divorce with equally high attorney fees is the stuff of cultural legend in the U.S. Divorce does not have to dissolve into a dog-eat-dog brawl. Divorce mediation is an alternative dispute resolution model, which uses neutral third party(s) to facilitate an agreement between the spouses. In the same way [...]
