Dakota County Family Mediator
by Amber M. Serwat
Making the decision to divorce is difficult, especially if you share kids. There are many decisions that you need to make with your soon to be ex-spouse about custody, parenting time, child support, educational priorities, holiday time, and other issues that may be unique to your family. Rather than leaving these major life decisions in the hands of a judge, it can be much more positive and productive to partner with a mediator to resolve these important decisions. AMS Mediation is a Dakota County family mediator who specializes in helping families navigate the divorce process with less emotional and financial strain.
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When you and your spouse decide to separate or divorce, your family dynamic changes immediately. Divorce is extremely painful and a stressful time for all involved. Your children need strong family relationships and support to deal with this significant change. It is critical, for example, for children to maintain their primary relationships…
Your family is the most important thing to you. When divorce or another issue shakes the core of your family, you may be looking for a way to navigate the waters in a way that minimizes the overall stress on each of you. Family mediation can help you solve complex issues related to your family so that you can move forward with your life in a healthy way. Family mediation can be used to settle the terms of a divorce, deal with child custody issues that come up after a divorce is final or to deal with the difficult issues related to an aging family member.
If the court system has ordered you and your spouse to engage in court ordered mediation in MN, AMS Mediation is there for you. You may have initial concerns about the process and whether it will work for your situation. Mediation, after all, is supposed to be a voluntary process for couples who wish to avoid the court-based processes of divorce. In the state of Minnesota, the courts always recommend mediation before litigation to save you time and money. 
There is no denying that divorce is difficult on a family. So, if you and your spouse have made the difficult decision that divorce is your best path forward, you may be looking for ways to complete the process in a way that has the least amount of negative impact on your loved ones. Using divorce mediation as a way to settle important aspects of your divorce like division of property, child custody,
One of the primary benefits of settling your divorce using mediation is that it lays the groundwork to make any additional necessary changes after your divorce is final. When you initially settle the important terms of your divorce such as how to equitably divide your property and how to structure your child custody agreement, you have no real way of knowing what the future holds.