I t has been said that the stress of divorce is , second only to death of a spouse. But few people know that divorce need not be quite as stressful as many experience it to be. For employers, keeping the conflict to a manageable level means more productive employees and a better bottom line. Divorce can cause an employee to be distracted and miss work but that employee will be far more productive if he or she is missing work for settlement conferences and mediation sessions rather than court hearings. Employers can help assure the employee's early return to devoting full attention to the job by suggesting methods of reducing conflict.
Most divorce cases settle at some point before going to trial.
However, many participants learn only after much heartache, stress and several thousand dollars in attorney fees that they can sit down and reach an acceptable settlement with their spouse. Divorce is more complex than many other types of legal issues because the involved parties have emotional attachments to each other, both positive and negative. When these emotional issues get intertwined with the financial and parenting issues necessary to resolve a divorce, the process becomes more complicated. A settlement conference or mediation session can separate the emotional issues from the legal issues much more quickly than other litigation processes. Not surprisingly, when two divorcing people communicate on their own, they inevitably get into the same arguments that led to the decision to divorce.