Cupertino Divorce Mediation Services, Family Law, Legal Separation, or Custody Mediation
Divorce mediation is a great way to stay in control of your divorce in Cupertino and throughout California. Unlike a traditional divorce which takes an average 2 years and can cost from $20,000.00 to $100,000.00+, mediation puts the couple in control of the process. As a result, the couple ends up with a high-quality agreement for a fraction of the cost and time. The mediator empowers the couple with family law options to maximize the community benefits, identify separate claims, and finalize the couple’s divorce. By providing these resources to the couple together, the couple rebuilds trust and teamwork to finish their divorce.
Your mediator can be a lawyer (attorney-mediator) or another certified third-party person (non-attorney mediator). At Families First Mediation, our mediators are family law attorneys with at least 20 years of family law experience. Our mediators pride themselves in creative agreements, which focus on important details like tax consequences and maximizing the benefits available to the parties compared to a traditional divorce process.
The following are the important roles our mediators take on for the mediation to be successful:
Neutral Mediators play the crucial role of facilitating sound communication between spouses based on their divorcing goals. “FamiliesFirstMediation” Mediators use communication skills and help couples discuss different options to resolve their dispute on critical divorce matters
Our Cupertino-based Attorney mediators can guide couples about the legal implications of the decisions made under the mediation process by legal frameworks and family law. They may also offer legal advice and draft legal documents.
Getting served with divorce papers is stressful. Imagine having to live your daily life with court hearings, papers, deadlines, depositions, discovery, and attorney conferences. It is incredibly stressful. Compare this to mediation. In mediation, you still have to work through your divorce (which is difficult) but the process works around your schedule and needs. You are working towards agreements, which increases the cooperative tone and de-escalates conflict.
To resolve your dispute, Our qualified Families First Mediation Mediators may involve other professionals depending upon the complexities involved in the case. They might seek help from financial experts to resolve financial conflicts. The Mediators are well-trained to understand your emotions. Therefore, for severe circumstances and specific issues, they may talk to a mental health clinician, mental therapist, or child psychologist to ease the divorce process.
Dina is the founder and principal of Families First Mediation. Her mission is make A-class services available to clients at all socio-economic levels by providing her commitment to excellence at a fraction of the cost of traditional divorce options. Dina sits as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Personal Property Arbitration in Santa Clara County and is a family law mediator for the Agency for Dispute Resolution (ADR), a premier provider of private dispute resolution services with a selective panel of neutrals.
Divorce mediation comes with several benefits:
• Post-divorce stability
• Mutual Satisfaction
• Flexibility and convenience
• Privacy and confidentiality
• Higher rate of compliance
• Impartiality and time-effectiveness
• Agreements are customized to your family’s needs
• Peacefulness and less adversarial nature
• Far more cost-effective
• Child-centered and child-focused parenting approach
Our Families First Mediation Mediators in Los Angeles, CA, have helped thousands of couples agree on the specific terms of their divorces. “Families First Mediation ” Mediators have saved spouses from costly litigation with customized strategies suited to their family’s needs.
Following are the Services of Families First Mediation Mediators:
Divorce Mediation is proven as the most effective approach for divorce. You stay in control of your divorce case and you make the decisions for you and your family, not a judge or lawyer. You also save money, paying for one impartial professional rather than multiple professionals with differing goals. Also, mediation takes far less time than any of the other available options.
We believe anyone can successfully mediate their divorce or legal separation. In fact, statistics show children do much better when parents mediate. We provide a customized process that allows couples to move quickly and successfully through their divorce process. We provide the legal knowledge you need to make the right decisions for you and your family. We take the complexity of divorce and make it simple.
We will prepare and file the Petition and Response for the divorce or legal separation for you. These papers start your divorce case.
You will meet with the attorney-mediator and your spouse in working sessions. On average, parties need 6 sessions. The attorney-mediator will help you understand the law and provide you options for property division, parenting and child and spousal support. Using that information, the attorney-mediator will guide you to an agreement. We are looking for results that you understand and work for you, each other, and your family - both today and for your future.
For every divorce and legal separation, you must exchange and complete financial disclosures. We will guide you through them so they are exchanged and done correctly
We will put your agreements together in a final agreement, known as an MSA. We submit this to court to become your divorce judgment.
Our mediation sessions are virtual. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, we offered virtual sessions and relied heavily on technology to offer the best services to our clients and keep their costs down. We rely on secure methods to share documents, online calendaring, electronic payment options and other useful integrations. Unlike other divorce practices, you won’t find charges on your invoice for us to file or print your documents to paper.
In co-mediation, two mediators work together to resolve disputes among parties. With co-mediation, parties get the expertise of two mediators, and these mediators share their knowledge, experience, and skills to reach the outcome. However, it can add some extra costs due to the involvement of two mediators for both parties. It also requires mediators who work exceptionally well with one another; otherwise, it’s likely the parties will be confused.
You can find a reputable divorce mediator in California by doing these steps:
The mediator can understand your case (suitability of mediation to you) and divorce issues in a free video consultation. Additionally, they can communicate their strategies to resolve your disputes, their role as a neutral facilitator, and the risks associated with your divorce. You can also learn about their fee model in an initial discussion. In short, you can use the free video consultation for maximum benefit without spending money.
The number of sessions required in your mediation for simple divorce or complex cases can vary. The more complications there are, the more sessions will be required. Likewise, the couple’s willingness to compromise, complexity, information gathering (process), expert consultations, and mediator experience may also influence the number of sessions. Our Families First Mediations couples average 5–6 sessions. Here is a breakdown of the expected number of sessions based on the case types.
The following are the pros and cons of mediation in divorce.
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Families First Mediation is a pioneer in the field of divorce mediation. Our entire divorce mediation team takes great pride in being active trainers, divorce mediators and teachers of mediation in the greater California area. If you are considering a collaborative divorce, legal seperation or looking for a san jose divorce lawyer we have services that may be beneficial to you. Take advantage of our vast expertise and background in the field of divorce mediation and our genuine desire to help with your divorce mediation services.
