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Family Mediation-How Mediation Can Help After Divorce
Submitted: 2008-06-09 11:36:14
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Mediation is effective for resolving issues that come up after your divorce is final. Issues that come up after the divorce decree is final are called “post-judgment” post-divorce issues.
The most common issues after a divorce are modification of child support, custody, visitation, and alimony. But remember, you and your former spouse can agree to mediate any problems arising from a divorce settlement agreement or divorce decree.
Since division of property was dealt with during the divorce, many post-judgment disputes revolve around issues related to children if you and your former spouse have them in common. The most common of these issues are child support modification, visitation, and custody changes. Regardless of the exact issue concerning children, mediation is usually a very good vehicle to resolve them.
What are the benefits to you of mediation for post-judgment disputes? The same as for using divorce mediation, including more control of the outcome, flexibility in choosing a solution, lower or no legal costs, confidentiality, and certainty of outcome.
If you and your former spouse decide to fight it out in court, then you’re back in the same emotional and financial rollercoaster that is usually associated with a litigated divorce.
Just like in divorce mediation, you can go to post-judgment mediation without using an attorney. You simply choose a mediator, and make arrangements to schedule mediation.
If you and your former spouse had a litigated divorce, and are still sore at the process and the expense of litigating the first time around, consider using mediation first for post-judgment disputes. You can still use the services of a lawyer to review any mediated settlement agreement before you sign it. But it will be cheaper for the lawyer to review the agreement than to represent you in a post-judgment legal action.
Even paying for the mediation is the same. Each of you can pay one-half or you both can agree that one of you will pay for the entire mediation.
In summary, post-divorce mediation can help you in the same way as divorce mediation by providing you the same benefits, including controlling the outcome, giving you more certainty over the outcome, and avoiding long and expensive litigation. You can read more about the benefits of mediation in the free mediation guide.
(c) 2008 Vivian Rodriguez. All Rights Reserved.
Vivian Rodriguez helps parties in family disputes workout creative solutions to lessen the emotional and financial impact of expensive and long litigation. She is an attorney and Florida Supreme Court-certified family mediator offering dispute resolution services in Florida.For more information on mediation in family disputes, even before you start the legal process, visit www.fldivorcemediation.com.
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