Family Mediation Week – 22nd January 2024
Separating couples are urged to avoid courtroom conflict as Family Mediation Week kicks off. Couples who have decided to separate or divorce in 2024 are being urged to find out how to avoid courtroom confrontation to settle money and parenting arrangements, with the...
Family Mediation Week
Family Mediation Week has highlighted how mediation can enable separating parents avoid court room conflict. January usually sees a dramatic rise in the number of couples deciding to live apart. Family Mediation is a process that can help ex-partners agree what...
Mediation and Financial Arrangements
It can feel overwhelming to have to sort out financial arrangements when you are separating or getting divorced. There are so many life-changing decisions that will need to be made:- Where will we live? What will happen to the family home? How will we meet all of...
Mediation and Child Arrangements
Parents who are separating are faced with the often daunting task of making arrangements for their children. This can be the hardest part of the separation. Parents will have to deal with so many tough questions:- How do we make a plan that is the best for our...
Is Mediation right for me?
Many clients believe that mediation is not the right process for them particularly where they feel that they cannot sit in the same room as their ex. This may be because they have been in an abusive relationship, or they lack the confidence to express themselves in...
What is mediation? Why mediate?
Mediation is a process that helps couples who are separating to sort things out. The central goal of mediation is to support you in resolving things to disentangle your relationship and make sound and long-lasting arrangements for your future. An independent and...
Family Mediation Week
This week is #FamilyMediationWeek (from 16th to 20th January 2023). The week is organised by the Family Mediation Council, a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to promote the use of family mediation for the benefit of the public. It is a week designed to raise...
Thanksgiving
This week is Thanksgiving and it got me thinking about what a child might say to thank their parents for how they succeeded in parenting through their separation. It might go something like this:”Hi Mum and Dad thank you for: Understanding that although you are...