Mediators can help the professionals and parties in estate matters look at all possible options, including new proposals that no one has considered before. The confidentiality of the mediation process opens many doors that would otherwise remain closed. Importantly, co-mediators do not give advice and do not comment on the advice given by other professionals. An interdisciplinary team of mediators composed of a psychologist and a mediator knowledgeable in estate and trust law can help the professionals and the beneficiaries with substantive issues and difficult personalities. Where estates are concerned, intricacies of fact and law can combine with emotion, misperceptions, and complicated family dynamics to form a highly combustible mixture.
Mediation can put out the fires before they consume both money and family harmony.
Biography John A. Gromala and David F. Gage bring the benefits of mediation to the field of estate administration, estate planning and conflict resolution among business or professional partners and shareholders. See their websites for additional information.