ADVANTAGES OF MEDIATION

- Maintains relationships by minimizing the potentially traumatic emotional and psychological effects of the adversarial process
- Provides an opportunity for cooperation between the parties
- Takes less time
- Saves money
- Provides the parties with the tools to structure an agreement in their and their children’s best interests
- Helps with the exchange of information, ideas, and alternatives leading to a settlement
- Results in an agreement with which the parties are more likely to comply
- The parties retain control
- All discussions are confidential

GOALS OF MEDIATION

- To help the parties reach their own acceptable agreement by fully exploring all choices
- To avoid the need for a court-imposed decision

- To prepare the parties to anticipate, work through, and resolve disagreements that might arise
- To reduce anxiety and the negative effects of going to court

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