Why You Should Consider a Mediation Reviewing Attorney
Have you and your spouse decided to enter into mediation to create an agreement for your divorce? Do you want to start mediation prepared? Or are you in mediation and unsure or unclear what you should decide? Do you have questions about what you should decide for child support or property division and would like some advice before you decide? Perpaps you need a mediation reviewing attorney.
Lots of questions need to be answered during the divorce process, and mediation is a proven and effective process for ensuring it goes as smooth as possible. Mediation saves time, saves money and preserves relationships. Preserving relationships is particularly important if you have children and need to still co-parent even though you are getting divorced. That being said, in mediation the mediator is a neutral party. The mediator, even an attorney mediator, is not attorney to either party. The mediator cannot tell you what you should do or should not do or give you advice.
A mediation reviewing attorney can help you through this process, answer your questions, make you feel more comfortable about making decisions, prepare you for your mediation session, review your drafted agreement and still keep you out of the costly and emotionally draining litigation process. The mediation reviewing attorney, especially a family law mediation reviewing attorney, can review each section of the agreement with you to answer your questions and to explain how each decision will affect your rights and responsibilities under the agreement.
That being said, some people enter mediation prepared with many decisions already made and have a clear idea of a parenting schedule and a property division that is clear and simple to divide. Those individuals should at least review their mediated agreement with a mediation reviewing attorney. For others, this is not the case, with parents living in other states or other countries involving a complex parenting schedule, couples with multiple properties, and businesses that need to be valued. Sometimes experts will need to be consulted during mediation for evaluations or tax consequences, stock agreements that may need to be revised or a pre-nuptial or post-nuptial agreement that needs to be reviewed and discussed as part of the mediation process.
The mediation reviewing attorney may be that extra piece you may need to have a peaceful and respectable mediation and give you peace of mind with a mediated agreement that you understand and feel comfortable signing. All the while, this will keep your matter outside of court hearings for temporary orders, pre-trial conference and a costly trial.
