Ideally, mediation should empower individuals to develop creative solutions to their most complex problems. This is accomplished through mutual respect and collaboration with a trained professional.
Family mediators are intended to serve as objective, neutral, third parties that may help to facilitate communication regarding difficult topics that need solutions.
Family mediation can potentially help to resolve family conflict, thus enabling the creation of healthier families for years ahead.
Family mediation is also referred to and utilized for a number of varying purposes to include but not limited to:
➡️ Helping Adults Solve Problems
➡️ Divorce Mediation
➡️ Co-parenting Planning
➡️ Conscious Uncoupling
➡️ Child Custody Disputes
➡️ Separation Agreements
➡️ Co-parenting Dispute(s)
➡️ Child Custody Visitation Agreements
Some of the functions of Family Mediators?
✅ Family Mediators encourage independent decision making.
✅ Family Mediators encourage informed decision making.
✅ Family Mediators remain objective and neutral as a third party.
✅ Family Mediators encourage respectful collaboration and communication.
✅ Family Mediators facilitate conversations.
✅ Family Mediators help people arrive to mutual agreements.
✅ Family Mediators help people develop solutions to their problems.
✅ Family Mediators remain respectful, calm, composed and professional.
Stuff Family Mediators refrain from:
🚫 Family Mediators do NOT provide legal advice.
🚫 Family Mediators do NOT represent anyone.
🚫 Family Mediators are NOT acting as a lawyer. However, lawyers are frequently certified as mediators.
🚫 Family Mediators can NOT act in dual roles. For example, if a mediator is an accountant then the mediator can NOT be both the accountant and the mediator to the same person(s).
🚫 Family Mediators can NOT make decisions for the person(s) involved in the mediation.
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