While the law provides guidelines and minimal standards for the issues, the courts are usually receptive to uncontested agreements that fall within very broad boundaries of fairness . Mediation promotes dialogue between divorcing spouses regarding their conflicts and mutual interests. Couples can begin the healing process for themselves and their children by mediating and focusing on resolution of the issues. Research indicates that children of divorce experience fewer long-term effects when conflict is minimized and when parents cooperate to establish parenting arrangements such that both parents remain involved with the children. Mediation begins the process of couples communicating as parents, not as spouses.
Mediation avoids the high financial costs and frustrating delays of litigation.
Mediation is cost effective. By promoting cooperation, hostility is minimized and the emotional and financial toll of divorce litigation is avoided. Settlement Solutions, Inc. is committed to providing excellence in mediator services at an affordable price. Mrs. Arnold and Mr. Raines usually co-mediate divorces. Both are practitioner members of the Academy of Family Mediators with extensive mediation experience in family matters as well in business, employment, real estate, construction, securities and banking, probate, and a wide range of other civil disputes.