A Beginners Guide to Divorce Mediation
One thing most of us have in common when we go through a divorce is that we are beginners. You have experience with a divorce because you have not been through it before. However, this can create some additional stress about the process. Divorce mediation has become a highly effective and popular mechanism for settling the terms of a divorce, with many people choosing it over litigation. If you are beginning the divorce process for the first time, here are some basic principles that will help you navigate it successfully:
● Divorce mediation is less expensive and less time consuming than litigation.
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Over the last 3+ years, our society has changed a lot. Many of us transitioned to virtual meetings, virtual doctor’s appointments and zooms to stay connected to loved ones. The ability to connect online has its challenges and drawbacks, but it certainly allows us a flexibility that we did not have before. The team at AMS Mediation moved to virtual mediation when the pandemic hit and we have opted to continue to offer
AMS Mediation has been providing effective, affordable, respectful and efficient mediation services for those in Minnesota for many years. We offer divorce mediation services, family mediation, divorce and parenting coaching services, parenting time expeditor and parenting consulting services as well as custody and early neutral evaluations. In 2020, with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we shifted our services to all virtual to be able to continue to serve our clients.
As is true with many things in our life, divorce is one of those things that we simply do not know a lot about if we have never experienced it. We may think that we understand the process, from what we have heard from friends, or read online, but that is certainly not the full story. With divorce, people tend to think that a couple reaches a decision that their relationship is over, and divorce is like a scalpel that separates one spouse from the other. Divorce may be the end of your marriage, but it is also the beginning of a new phase of your relationship. For this reason (and many others), mediation is an efficient and effective resource to help you resolve the terms of your divorce. Mediation lays a strong foundation for the relationship you will need to develop after your divorce is final
One of the biggest challenges in the divorce process is deciding how to divide joint property. No matter whether you have been married for 1 year or for 25 years, you accumulate many things during your marriage that are difficult to part with. But the fact is that agreeing on how to equitably divide all of the things that you own together is difficult. Mediation can be an effective tool for managing this process. Rather than leaving these decisions in the hands of a judge