Benefits of Mediation

• Mediation empowers both partners and enables them to emerge from a divorce with their self-respect intact.
• Mediation protects family relationships and establishes a foundation for future co-parenting, while helping a couple end their relationship as husband and wife.
• Mediation moves forward without court delays, thus reducing uncertainty and confusions for all family members.
• Mediation focuses on the present and future, not the past, allowing both individuals to redirect their energies toward independent futures.
• Mediation avoids the polarizing tendencies of the adversary system. Mediation results in agreements to which people are more committed.
• Mediation limits costs at a time when there is increased financial pressure.
• Mediation offers an informal, confidential context for discussing the important issues, at the pace you choose.