Why Mediation?

Mediation helps you listen and talk to each other. This may be very difficult initially but improvements in communication are commonplace.
Your children will benefit from your improved ability to co-operate as parents. ( Reseach shows clearly that when parents separate, it is the conflict between them that hurts the children most but that children often fail to show this hurt and so parents think they are coping fine when, in fact, they are not!)
Couples are in complete control of their own mediation process, aided by the mediator. They decide their own outcome rather than the Courts.
Couples can speak freely, have their views fully heard and discuss options without feeling ‘legally bound’ by what they say.
Couples are free to seek bits of independent legal advice at any stage of the process, should they wish.
The overall costs are usually lower even where both parties receive independent legal advice from time to time.
Couples report it as being a very positive process where they are able to communicate better at athe end of the process.