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Family Mediation is a great tool to simplify the complicated procedures of divorce and courtroom proceedings. It helps you to figure out the most practical solutions to the most complex of problems in an amicable and mutually agreeable fashion.
Moreover, mediation costs you a fraction of the amount which you might be spending for availing the services of the solicitor. So, it is wise to give mediation a chance before diving in the unchartered waters of court room proceedings.
Mediation also helps you in settling disputes concerning fixed assets, financial assets, child custody etc. in a civil and cordial manner. So that the divorce doesn’t become a war between you and your spouse and you part ways in a healthy manner.
Moreover, once the divorce reaches inside the walls of a court room, it becomes a public affair and all your friends and relative get to know about your divorce and the nature of it.
This can be really embarrassing for you if the reason for the divorce is adultery, impotency or any other sensitive issue. Family mediation or divorce and separation mediation is your best option to keep your personal life under wraps.
Moreover, while courtroom proceedings and hearings can take an eternity to reach a decision, Family mediation [town] can help solve the disputes in half that time and at a fraction of the amount which you pay to the solicitors. Family Mediation [town] helps save time, money and immeasurable emotional stress of courtroom proceedings.
Family Mediation [town] also puts the couples at the pilot seat of the whole divorce procedures to help reach an agreement. You won’t have to sacrifice your work or other important engagements to meet your mediator. You can fix the meetings with your family mediator [town] whenever it is convenient to you. Also, it is you who decide what issues need be discussed in the meetings and what disputes need to be resolved.
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Family’s are deeply affected by divorce or separation, especially when there are children in the family. Often these painful situations can be helped with the aid of a mediator who will hold a Mediation Intake Assessment Meeting or MIAM. MIAMs can soothe ruffled feelings and ensure that communal assets are divided equally, make sure that financial obligations of both parents are laid out and help to make the break as easy as possible for all the members of the family.
When attending a court proceeding on the matter, the family will need to present an FM1 (Family Mediation 1 form) which confirms that a MIAM has been held.
As of April 2014, significant changes were made to the judicial system regarding separation and divorces, particularly where children were involved. These changes ensure that the welfare of the children is paramount, with minimal impact on the children and as little negativity as possible. One of the major changes was a requirement for a mediation session or MIAM to be attended before any court proceedings to do with financial or custody matters (hence the need for a FM1 to be produced).
If the split is acrimonious and both parties find it difficult to be in the same room, as would happen with face to face mediation, it is possible to ask for shuttle mediation.
Shuttle sessions happen when the two parties are seated in separate rooms and the mediator shuttles between the two, discussing issues and offering solutions.
Shuttle mediation is often a good solution with distance between the parties allowing for rational and reasoned thinking.
Mediation sessions are now a legal requirement, and your ex’s lawyer will make this clear to him or her.
Offering shuttle mediation, in which they will not have to share a room while coming to an agreement, is sometimes a way to make the thought of mediation more palatable.
Mediators can also help with will disputes: resolving issues between heirs and coming to an acceptable compromise in the event that the will is ambiguous or unclearly worded.