Divorce and Family Mediation
With its focus on constructive discussion, mediation can help you:
- Handle your divorce in a dignified and constructive way
- Work with other family members to make important decisions without fighting
- Figure out how to divide or dispose of family property in a way that’s fair
- Improve communication and ability to solve problems with your spouse, co-parent, sibling, or other family member
- Address issues in a family business to improve working relationships
- Prepare for a conversation on a sensitive issue with a member of your family
Family mediation can aid couples, families and family-owned businesses talk through issues and plan for transitions that include:
- Differences in parenting styles
- Parenting decisions–children’s education, afterschool activities, financing college, and other concerns
- Issues between parents and teens or parents and adult children
- Elder care and guardianship
- Estate planning, trusts, and wills
- Family-owned property
- Decisions involving family pets and livestock
- Family business, partnership, and small business
- Family transitions, including remarriage, step-parenting, retirement, illness, injury, or birth or adoption of a child
- Planning major events such as weddings to reduce stress and improve relationships among family members