by Johnathan Pease | Jul 18, 2016 | Divorce, Mediation
What exactly is the cost of mediation? Well, that depends on what currency we’re talking about. Financially, with New Landscape Mediation the costs are pretty clear, and very easy to state. In June of 2016 we did an audit of the last 50 clients for whom we mediated an...
by Johnathan Pease | Jul 14, 2016 | Divorce, Mediation
What would you say if I suggested you invest £22,000 into your old relationship? “I think not” is probably an overly polite euphemism to the counter suggestion you’d actually be most likely to make! As silly as it sounds however, in the average UK divorce, this is...
by Johnathan Pease | Jul 13, 2016 | Divorce, Mediation
The adversarial illusion. What do I mean by that? The English Legal System is known as an “adversarial system” as opposed to the inquisitorial systems used in many European countries and elsewhere. Wikipedia defines the phrase as: A legal system used in...
by Johnathan Pease | Jul 11, 2016 | Divorce, Mediation
The cost of divorce. Whether these costs are felt in feelings of betrayal or the remorse of wasted years spent trying to make something work that we knew in our hearts wasn’t right anyway. More often than not, the greatest cost of divorce is to children who discover...
by Johnathan Pease | Jul 7, 2016 | Divorce, Mediation
Unreasonable behaviour in divorce. Most people seeing this phrase will assume I’m talking about the use of unreasonable behaviour in a divorce petition. The document used to apply for a divorce and the use of unreasonable behaviour as a reason in requesting the...