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Getting separated or divorced from your partner can be a very stressful phase in one’s life. It doesn’t just affect your mental wellbeing but also your close family and children’s.
Often when these matters are settled in court, much animosity can grow between the partners during the proceedings as a result of the lengthy legal processes involved. A family mediator is much more cost effective.
It can cost you emotionally and financially making it a rough and testing period to get through. In such circumstances, divorce and separation family mediation is a highly useful service that can eliminate unnecessary anxiety of hiring solicitors and attending legal hearings.
Most cases of separation and divorce can be solved using mediation, barring a couple of rare exceptions. Family mediation is a process by which you and your ex-partner can volunteer to meet, along with a mediator, and discuss the social and financial implications of your circumstances.
Contractual agreements, a division of assets, property, shares, etc. as well as custody of your children are some of the things you would discuss in a professional yet friendly atmosphere to reach an amicable conclusion.
By using family Mediation Information and Advisory Service for Family Mediation, you will be able to resolve matters with substantially less hassle and save significantly on monetary costs.
As this is a voluntary process, we offer a fast appointment service that allows the meetings to be set up at your convenience for mediation services.
Unlike the lengthy proceedings you may experience with hiring solicitors, our fast appointment service will ensure you don’t have to delay or wait for a long time to get the mediation process started.
Our family mediators are trained and accredited to the highest possible standards and we are a nationally recognized mediation service.
Online mediation is available to be Covid-19 safe and location is not an issue to resolve your family disputes.
Our professional family mediators approach all matters in a fair and friendly manner. You can be assured complete unbiased on their part and yet a personable resolve to all kinds of client circumstances.
Conflict resolution via mediation is the best way to save family relationships.
Almost all separation issues can be solved with family mediation as it promises an extremely high success rate with national family mediation services.
A family mediator far less time consuming and more cost effective method than going through solicitors and paying legal fees.
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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.