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What Is Mediation & The Process For Divorce?

What's Mediation?

What's Mediation? This is a common question we get here at Florida Mediation Firm. Unlike litigation, Mediation is a non-adversarial approach to conflict resolution. A mediator's role is to facilitate communication between parties that assists them in focusing on the primary issues of their dispute. Unlike opposing attorneys, taking the side of their clients, mediators remain impartial—generating options that meet both parties’ interests in an effort to resolve the conflict and keep the parties away from a courtroom battle. 

According to Honeyman & Yawanarajah (2003), lawyers often believe that the purpose of mediation is a rapid and efficient settlement of a particular case … mediation is more to improve relationships among parties who will have to deal with each other again or even help them to learn how best to handle conflict with other parties in the future.

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What Is Mediation For Divorce?

So what is mediation for divorce? In the state of Florida, divorce mediation is one of the best-kept secrets. Most couples who face divorce are unaware that if the parties end up before a judge, they will order the divorce proceeding to be reviewed by a mediator. One of the options that divorcing couples have is to mediate their entire agreement (custody, child support, division of property and debts, alimony, etc.) without an attorney. This is what mediators are trained to do. Once the parties form a full agreement, the mediator could assist the parties to finalize the dissolution of their marriage by pointing them to their local courthouse—which in most cases the cost is under $500 or to hire an attorney to file the divorce. If the above option is agreed upon, the parties’ savings could be substantial and the finalization rapid. 



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What Is The Mediation Process?

There are basically five stages to a successful mediation.

  1. The introduction to mediation
  2. Identifying the problems and interests of the parties
  3. Gathering information
  4. Bargaining
  5. Drafting a settlement 



Reference 


Honeyman, Christopher and Nita Yawanarajah. "Mediation." Beyond Intractability. Eds. Guy

Burgess and Heidi Burgess. Conflict Information Consortium, University of Colorado, Boulder. Posted: September 2003

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