Family mediation is a voluntary process in which a trained and impartial mediator helps individuals involved in family or relationship disputes to resolve the issues themselves.
Family mediation helps the parties involved to communicate better with one another and to work out a mutually acceptable agreement. The issues may concern their relationship, parenting, or any other family matter.
Mediation helps people maintain responsibility for their own lives.
Benefits include:
Benefits include:
- Reducing hostility, resentment and misunderstandings
- Improving communication
- When children are involved, focusing on the children's needs to co-operate in promoting the best interests
of the child - Focusing on reasonable and practical arrangements through communication between the parties
- Premarital issues
- Prenuptial and cohabitation agreements
- Relationship issues
- Separation and divorce
- Prenuptial and cohabitation agreements
- Parenting plans including shared-parenting agreements
- Post-divorce issues
- Parent and teen conflict
- Eldercare issues
- Family business disputes
- Estate disputes