If you are not sure if mediation is right for you, contact us. Give us a chance to help you settle your own issues.

Make Decisions by Yourselves

In theory, it’s simple: You do best if you and your spouse work out thorny issues together, with help from a neutral third person, such as a mediator. You don’t let other people haggle over such vital matters as how your children will be raised, what happens to the family home and how your property will be divided. If you and your spouse can work these issues out yourselves — and many, if not most, couples can — you will save yourselves time, money and anguish. More important, you will spare your children the ugly spectacle of extended parental fights, helping them come through the divorce as undamaged as possible.

If you are able to resolve the big questions of children, money and property, you just need to ask the court, in writing, to grant a divorce. If people choose not to have an attorney, many courts now make it relatively easy for people to handle an uncontested divorce without a lawyer.

Save on the High Cost of Divorce: More then Just Money

There are over one million divorces filed in this country each year, about 90,000 in Florida alone. Many of them are expensive, destructive contests that could have been avoided. Caught up in the emotions of the moment, warring spouses are pitted against each other in the only forum that our system provides for them, the courtroom. The process is designed to be confrontational. The decider of the case, the Judge, will make life-changing decision for you. While this system may be the best devised by man for deciding criminal and commercial disputes, it is potential disaster for the troubled family. It elevates hostility between spouses by pitting husband against wife and mother against father. Children are impacted by prolonged exposure to angry parents over the long term of the battle. Court dockets are clogged with these emotional battles that are better resolved outside of the judicial process.However there is an alternative to this bleak scenario. Divorce mediation offers a low-cost alternative to the unpleasant reality of the traditional divorce. With divorce mediation, the parties retain the control over their future instead of surrendering the control to others or the courts.