What Are The Benefits of Mediation?
In my experience, the best opportunity to settle a divorce case is at mediation.
Mediation is the use of a neutral third party, who is called a mediator, to help you and your spouse create an agreement, rather than letting the judge decide how to resolve your issues for you. The mediator can’t force any decisions upon you.
The mediator is specially trained to help you identify important issues, to keep you focused on finding solutions, and to encourage you to voice any concerns.
Mediation is an informal environment with less conflict. It is intended to find workable solutions, and mediation regularly creates win-win results for the spouses who are in dispute.
Generally, mediation has a high success rate of resolving issues. Therefore, most judges require or encourage the use of mediation prior to trial.
Mediation has many benefits.
Mediation is the use of a neutral third party, who is called a mediator, to help you and your spouse create an agreement, rather than letting the judge decide how to resolve your issues for you. The mediator can’t force any decisions upon you.
The mediator is specially trained to help you identify important issues, to keep you focused on finding solutions, and to encourage you to voice any concerns.
Mediation is an informal environment with less conflict. It is intended to find workable solutions, and mediation regularly creates win-win results for the spouses who are in dispute.
Generally, mediation has a high success rate of resolving issues. Therefore, most judges require or encourage the use of mediation prior to trial.
Mediation has many benefits.
- You and your spouse may be unable to put aside bad feelings that are preventing you from focusing on the real issues. As a neutral party, who is specially trained, the mediator may be able to help you successfully break through those obstacles.
- Since mediation is confidential, you can freely express your thoughts and feelings without fear they will be used against you in court.
- Since mediation is completely voluntary, you decide what you are willing to accept.
- You control the time and costs devoted to mediation. If you are flexible, you may resolve all issues quickly, which means less time, cost and stress than litigation. If you don’t feel mediation is helping, you can decide to end it. Even if you only reach a partial agreement at mediation, you have limited the issues the Judge needs to decide. The court time and fees required to decide the remaining issues is less.