Call our specialist team on 0345 604 4911 or contact us online for a 30-minute consultation about your mediation options.
Family mediation is the most popular way to settle a family law dispute out of court. It involves an independent professional – the mediator – helping you and your ex-partner or family member negotiate an agreement. The mediator is completely impartial – they don’t take sides or pass a judgement on your case.
You’ll need to attend a series of meetings for you to discuss your issues and try to find a solution. These meetings can be online or in person, and you don’t have to see or speak to your ex-partner or family member if you don’t want to.
If you reach a solution that you both agree to, the mediator will explain how to make that agreement legally binding.
Numerous studies have shown mediation can produce better long term results for separating families, as it reduces animosity and improves communication.
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When Can Mediation Be Used?
Mediation can be used in pretty much any family law dispute. In most cases you have to consider mediation before you’re allowed to apply to have your case heard in the Family Court.
The common situations family mediation can be used are:
The arrangements for finances and/or children following divorce, civil partnership dissolution or separation
Reviewing existing financial or child arrangements following a change in circumstances
Agreeing the time children spend with their grandparents or other family members
Negotiating the terms of prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements.
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When Are The Advantages Of Family Mediation?
Mediation has many advantages over going to court:
It’s faster and cheaper
It’s less stressful
It can improve communication and your relationship with your ex-partner going forward. This can be particularly helpful if there are children involved.
In mediation you can’t be forced to agree to something that you don’t want (unlike with a court order)
It’s confidential – what you discuss won’t undermine your position if you can’t agree and your case ends up going to court. You agree to keep the discussions confidential (except for the purpose of taking legal or other advice) and details of the discussions and the outcome will never be made public.
Mediation is flexible. You both set the agenda of what you want to discuss. Sessions can be as regular as you like, and you can take breaks to test solutions (such as trialling an arrangement for the care of your children). You can also take a break to wait for important information, for example waiting for a business to be valued or a pensions report.
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What’s The Family Mediation Process?
All mediation sessions can be done online or in person. You can choose whether to attend them on your own, or with your lawyer. Mediation can be arranged so that you don’t have to see or speak to your ex-partner or family member if you don’t want to.
Family mediation follows a simple process:
Mediation Information & Assessment Meeting (MIAM) First mediation session Mediation sessions Outcome
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What Family Mediation Services Do We Offer?
We offer a 30 minute consultation with one of our family mediation lawyers to discuss your options, and the level of support you might need. Call us on 0345 604 4911 to find out more.
The family mediation services we offer are:
Mediation Information & Assessment Meeting (MIAM) MIAM meeting and help you understand whether mediation, or another option, is right for you.Mediation support service Lawyer supported mediation Family mediators Hybrid mediator
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Why Choose Us?
Our family mediation solicitors put your needs at the heart of what we do. We focus on what’s important, while keeping stress and costs to a minimum.
We’ll support you through the whole mediation process and provide a tailored service based on what you want and need. Our lawyers will be there with you at every stage of mediation, helping you navigate the legal, financial and emotional aspects of your family law issue.
We have one of the largest family law teams in the UK and are known for helping clients with significant personal or business wealth. Several of our lawyers are listed in Spear’s 500 – an independent guide to advisers for high net worth individuals. We also have experience in complex cases that involve wealth or families spread across multiple countries.
As a long-established team, we have a large network of specialist connections that we can call on to help with your case. These include:
Financial advisers
Accountants
Pensions experts
Business valuers
Barristers
Arbitrators.
All of our team have significant expertise in cases involving family mediation. In addition we have qualified mediators, including one of the only qualified hybrid mediators in the UK.
However complicated or acrimonious your family law issue is, we have the team to help you find a way forward. We offer a consultation about your mediation options where we’ll discuss how we can best support you.
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For a 30-minute consultation about family mediation, call us on 0345 604 4911 or contact us online.
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