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| HOW IT WORKS | BENEFITS | CHILDREN | YOUR CHOICES | |
| Work out your separation or divorce carefully, thoughtfully, AND inexpensively with a mediator who has 35 years experience helping families resolve conflicts. You don't need a lawyer to get divorced. | ||||
Family Mediation Atlanta offers a unique program of accelerated mediation that allows you to discuss, plan, and usually resolve all of your separation and divorce issues including: parenting plan (custody), child and/or spousal support, and property division. This allows you to:
*Control the outcome of your divorce
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Coping With Separation
If you are going through a separation or divorce, the process can be pretty
confusing and stressful. Besides the enormous personal changes, you are
confronted with a legal maze, expensive sounding lawyers, and the need to make
important financial decisions. When trust has broken down, it helps
tremendously to work with a neutral facilitator, or mediator, takes you through
the issues one by one, looking at options that might satisfy everyone's needs. Even if there is anger and anxiety, mediation can assist you in planning a future that meets your children's needs, and yours. You do not need to both engage attorneys to litigate; this almost always exacerbates any tensions already existing. The nature of a court "battle" involves each side accusing the other of misdeeds in order to win the case. Once hurtful words are spoken or written in court documents it is hard to repair the damage. If you have children, that damage can make co-parenting very difficult in years to come. Mediation assists you in identifying mutual parenting goals and preserving the working relationship you need. Most mediations for divorce take place over several weeks or months. Family Mediation Atlanta uniquely offers the Work It Out Week (OR Weekend). This consists of one or more sessions in four hour time blocks over several consecutive days. The schedule is designed to meet your needs.
During your mediation, the mediator will guide you through discussions
that enable you to resolve parenting (custody) issues, division of property,
expense sharing, child support, spousal support, and insurance issues. Within
one week, your mediator will provide you with a written separation agreement
detailing the decisions you made. If you file "pro se", without an attorney, you
may use this agreement to submit to the Court for an uncontested divorce.
Our program requires that participants with financial issues do some preparation prior to their sessions.
The mediator will provide instructions for that preparation. This method is
perfect for couples who want to make a full, immediate plan without returning
for sessions dragging on for months. |
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Family Mediation Atlanta 410-672-2237 |
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