Mediation

When parties are committed to reaching an amicable divorce agreement without court intervention, mediation may be appropriate. Attorney Bauer acts as an impartial third party to work out all custody issues, financial issues, and property division based on both parties' needs and desires. Mediation also greatly benefits your children as it helps prevent heated custody battles, easing your children's distress. Throughout the divorce mediation process, the parties decide what is best for their children by working together to reach a joint decision.

In mediation, parties reach a mutual resolution. While you probably won’t get all of what you want, neither will the other person. The point is for both of you to have ownership of the process, and in doing so, come up with an agreement you can both live with comfortably.

Divorce Mediation can take the place of going to court before a judge and having him or her decide the matter. Because both parties are cooperatively trying to work things out, divorce mediation is almost always faster and less expensive than going the route of litigation.

However, choosing divorce mediation does not mean that you give up your right to go to court. If you decide that mediation is no longer right for your situation, you can stop at any time, retain a separate attorney and proceed with the traditional litigation process.