Mediation

Mediation

Because of changes to Legal Aid for divorce and family issues made by the Legal Aid, Sentencing, and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, the Family Division of the court now mandates divorcing spouses to consider utilising Family Mediation to resolve any disagreements regarding divorce or child care legislation.

Abbott and Harris Solicitors provides lawyer-assisted Family Mediation in conflicts between divorcing, separating, or dissolving civil partnership couples, including Family Mediation that included:

Child Arrangement Orders

Child and children custody

Child contact and access arrangements

Child law and separation

Child name change

Children court orders

Changing a child’s religion

Extended family/alternative family

Finances and property in divorce

Finances after divorce

Formal separation

Informal separation

High net worth divorces

International divorce

Judicial separation

Leave to Remove application

Parental Responsibility

Pensions in divorce and separation

Prohibited Steps Order

Specific Issue Orders

It is possible for children who are old enough to understand what is going on to attend some Family Mediation and Child Mediation (involving child care matters) – as well as an extended family such as grandparents if they have a financial interest in the family home, are involved in child care, or are in dispute over contact with grandchildren.

Family Mediation may not be appropriate in some cases, such as when one partner refuses to attend sessions or when domestic abuse has happened in a relationship and is being investigated by the authorities.

However, in most circumstances, Family Mediation is a highly efficient means of settling problems in divorce, separation, or dissolution of civil partnerships — and it will also save on costly court proceedings and the emotional strain produced by family court hearings.

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