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Family & Cohabitation Mediation |
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JP Legal offers a highly successful family and cohabitation mediation service that is cost effective, sensible and a realistic alternative to court action. All our mediators are practising barristers and possess vast experience of family law disputes. Our mediators seek to create an unbiased environment in which conflicts are resolved amicably. The mediator will meet with both parties and discuss their concerns and help them reach mutual decisions on a range of issues such as custody and contact with children, housing and finance. We assist a variety of clients; for example, grandparents seeking contact with their grandchildren, same sex couples and estranged family members who may be grieving for a lost relative. There is increasing acknowledgement that the adversarial court process is not always best suited to the resolution of family disputes. The average cost of divorce in the UK now cost £25,575 **. More than a third of couples are forced to sell their marital home when they split up. Since April 2011, the family court now has the power to encourage parties to use alternative forms of dispute resolution. Parties seeking a court order in relevant family proceedings will be expected, before making their application, to consider with a mediator whether the dispute may be capable of being resolved through mediation. This uptake of mediation will be encouraged at any stage of the procceedings. If the parties fail to comply with the new rules the Judge can order the parties to attend a meeting with a mediator before any financial order is made. JP Legal offers this obligatory mediation assessment as free. We will provide
a legally trained mediator to conduct this initial assessment over the telephone
or in person. At this session you are able to consider your options in a friendly
and non-pressurised environment and decide whether you feel that embarking on the
mediation is the right option for you. We believe that this is a fantastic opportunity for all parties to obtain a better settlement. There is a false belief by parties that if they could only get a court order their interest will be satisfied. In many cases, this could not be further from the truth as huge legal costs, stress and the inevitable deterioration of the parental relationship leaves all parties worse off. **The Times, 23 October 2004 |
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