Family Mediation for you and your family

• A process which helps those in family breakdown to reach their own decisions about all or some of the issues arising from that breakdown.
• The issues might be about children, finance or property.
• A mediator will help you to negotiate with your ex partner and reach good joint decisions about the future
• The mediator will ensure that you both have time to speak, think and respond.

• A member of at least one of the Lead Bodies represented on the Family Mediation Council.
• Please see Regulation of Mediators

• To be Impartial (not take sides)
• To be Independent (not report to anyone else)
• To manage the process of mediation and guide you through it
• To provide information to help you to make informed decisions
• To help you to focus on the issues and how they may be resolved
• To help you both to see a pathway through to the future
• To actively work with you to resolve issues and improve communication

• A step by step process the exchange of information at the beginning
• Discussion and clarification of the issues to be resolved
• plenty of time for each of you to express your views and feelings
• Financial information is collected and exchanged (in cases involving finance and property)
• Options for dealing with the issues are explored
• External financial or legal advice (if appropriate), can be discussed to assist in narrowing down possible options for settlement
• Reaching agreement, having considered all the implications
• Final documents are drafted containing the proposals for final settlement.

• The first step is an information meeting which is called a MIAM. This means a meeting for information and assessment with a mediator.
• You can attend this either separately or together

• You can tell the mediator the situation that brings you to mediation
• The mediator will explain how mediation could help you
• Yyou will be assessed financially so that charges for mediation can be confirmed.
• You and the Mediator will decide whether mediation is suitable for you
• The Mediator will tell you what will happen next
• To refer - Please use our referral form
• Further information about the MIAM

We offer guidance on the following issues during the mediation process:

• The basis of divorce petition
• Separate Parenting
• Child Maintenance
• Spousal Maintenance
• The Impact of Behaviour on settlement
• Valuation of companies
• Financial Advisers and Mortgage Advisers
• Legal Services
• GDPR