Just some of the ways I can help…
couples
Every marriage and other domestic relationships encounter bumps along the way. Disagreements over finances, in-laws, parenting styles, sharing domestic tasks, the list is long.
If ignored or allowed to escalate, the damage to a relationship can be serious, and in some case irreparable. In mediation, couples can learn to negotiate those differences and develop new ways to deal with these differences in the future.
Divorce
Couples that decide to separate or divorce find themselves faced with a host of issues related to the division of assets, parenting decisions, parenting time, child support, spousal support and others that are unique to that couple. Mediation offers a cost effective, expeditious, and confidential alternative to litigation.
In mediation, the couple retains control over these decisions and avoids the unnecessary escalation that is characteristic of the litigation model.
Co-Parenting
For divorcing, post-divorce, or unmarried parents’ mediation can provide the much needed support to create or revise a plan addressing parenting decision-making, a parenting time, financial support of children in a manner that encourages cooperation serving the interest and needs of the parents and children.
It can often be a vehicle to establish new behavioral patterns as a couple faces their future as co parents.
Elder Care
As the population ages at an unprecedented level in the US, families are placed in a new role caregiver for their parents. They are confronted with decisions concerning health care, daily needs of living, and financial demands of their care.
These decisions are often framed in the context of unresolved family issues between siblings, parent and child, geographic distance, unequal resources, and inheritance. Mediation provides a neutral forum in which the family can collaboratively construct a plan that meets the parent’s need.