What are the Benefits of Mediation?

Keeping Intact An Amiable Relationship

Mediation helps preserve a good relationship with your spouse and reducing the tension for the sake of the children. Spouses who mediate their divorce typically are better able to communicate and cooperate and to keep tensions down for the sake of the children.

Future Cooperation

The mediation experience builds a base for future cooperation between the parties and teaches you how to resolve issues in a cooperative manner. Typically the parties are more satisfied by having arrived at their own “solutions” to the problems as opposed to having a judge make the decisions. The parties’ children typically benefit from such a collaborative approach.

Cost Effective

Typically mediation is significantly less expensive than a litigated divorce. A typical mediated divorce costs about $2,500, plus court filing fees. A divorce in court can be three times as costly — or more. Mediation is less expensive than paying two lawyers to fight for each spouse.

Less Time Consuming

Mediated divorce cases typically take considerably less time than a litigated divorce.

Greater Overall Satisfaction

In Mediation the parties are assisted by a mediator to reach an agreement developed by the spouses themselves, not one imposed by a judge or the court system. Typically those spouses who mediate their own settlement are much more satisfied with their divorce.

In addition, children of mediated divorces may adjust better to the divorce of their parents than children of litigated divorces. The documents are prepared on site by our legal staff and you and your spouse have the opportunity to put pen to paper, so to speak, to craft your divorce decree.

Contact Us

If you and your spouse are considering divorce, consider a mediated divorce. To discuss your circumstances with an experienced divorce mediator, contact the Thompson Law Firm LLC, at 480-634-7480.