Family Mediation

How can family mediation help?

Parting from each other when a relationship breaks down is both difficult and painful. It is difficult for children too. As parents your children need you to find a way of working together for them. They need you to lessen the confusion and uncertainty for them at a time when you may be suffering from all these feelings yourself.

You will have to make practical arrangements and decisions about where the children will live and how they will keep contact with each parent. It is important that both of you tell the children what has been decided. You will also need to decide how to share any savings, depts, pensions or property you have. Regular Support payments may be needed.

Once you are separated contact can be difficult. The children may be upset at home or at school. New partnerships may develop which are hard to cope with. Although you are no longer partners you can still work together as parents. This may not be easy but help is available in the Mediation process. Pain situations can be resolved and new arrangements made which suit you and your children.

Our professionally trained Family Mediators have a lot of experience of working with families in different ways. They are all members of the UK College of Family Mediators and work to a strict Code of Practice. Before mediation starts they see each of you separately to work out if mediation is right for your situation.

In short, family Mediation is a chance for parents to meet on neutral ground to make their own arrangements for a family's future after separation/divorce with the help of an unbiased, caring and skilled professional.

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