Mediation For Dog Owners Helping Dog Owners Resolve Disagreements Dogs are an important part of our families, and when disagreements arise between dog owners, emotions can quickly become difficult to manage. Disputes can happen for many different reasons. Perhaps two...
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Family Mediation Voucher
Scheme
This UK Government scheme helps separated parents use family mediation to sort out disputes without going to the family courts. 1) What the scheme is The Family Mediation Voucher Scheme provides up to £500 to help pay for family mediation. Family mediation is a...
Are mediation agreements legally
binding?
An agreement reached in family mediation is not automatically legally binding. It is an agreement between the parents, and the mediator can record what has been agreed. To make the arrangements legally binding, you usually need a court order. Key legal distinction (at...
What is a Family Mediation Service?
Family mediators help you to turn your arguments into agreements to help you make decisions for the future, to enable you to move on with your lives. It helps you focus on the issues affecting both of you, for example, parenting, property, and money, and what to do about it all now that you are separated.
Family mediation is faster, cheaper, and less stressful than going to court to try to reach agreements on issues connected to your divorce or separation.
What does Family Mediation cover?
In mediation you get to set the agenda, and this can be anything that you both agree to discuss and mediate on and typically the issues discussed in family mediation can include:
Parenting Issues such as:
- When and where the children will spend time with each of you.
- Helping grandparents keep in contact with their grandchildren.
- Agreeing child maintenance and support payments.
- Arrangements for school holidays and key events such as Christmas, Birthdays etc.
- Any other issues you wish to agree on – such as schooling, holidays, relocation, change of name, introducing new partners.
Financial & Property issues such as:
- How your assets will be divided.
- What happens to your family home, including who will move out and when this will happen.
- Support payments to be made.
- Division of pensions and investments.
- Spousal maintenance.
- How any upcoming bills will be settled.