Is mediation the easier, softer way of reaching a mutually acceptable financial settlement for your divorce? Is mediation the easier softer way of developing a co-parenting plan after you separate that ensures that the needs of your children are placed at the centre rather than the needs or fears of either parent? The answer to both of these questions is an emphatic: Yes!

Without question mediation will enable you to develop a financial settlement solution and a workable co-parenting plan more quickly, easily, and with far less trauma than dragging each other through a legal battle to get there. Very importantly, the cost of mediation at New Landscape Mediation for a full settlement to these important issues is less than £1,500 each in 99% of cases. In fact, if we are only assisting you with one of these issues, the cost of mediation on average is well under £1,000 to get to a final document detailing their solution.

What must be stated however, is that just because it Mediation is the easier softer way doesn’t mean that it is easy, nor that your mediator is supposed to be soft. Mediation is a process that people find themselves in during one of the most difficult times of their lives. Battling feelings of betrayal, fears for personal financial security or the idea that a parent might lose contact with their children don’t contribute to relaxed discussions. There is much that needs to be done. Your future settlement solution MUST be managed properly by your mediator and this means that they need to ensure that certain tasks are completed in a certain way.

The cost of mediation is that things like financial disclosure must be thorough. The process of gathering up all your bank statements may seem like overkill, but if the judge who reviews your settlement at the end of the day isn’t convinced that the deal you so carefully negotiated in mediation was completed with a mutual and full knowledge of your finances, it won’t be approved. Your children need to know that their needs have been considered in whatever plans you make for their future, and again, this takes a certain amount of time and planning. Couples who get this wrong, usually soon find themselves wishing they’d given the cost of mediation more consideration.

Mediation is the easier softer way, but New Landscape Mediation will also work very hard to ensure that your hard work sticks. That you can walk away from mediation safe in the knowledge that your solution will be ratified by the Court and that you can then get on with the process of living.

If you would like more information about how New Landscape Mediation can help you reach a successful solution to these very important matters, call us on 01279 211 657 for a fully confidential discussion of your needs.