Questions About Family Mediation – Part 1

What is mediation?

Mediation is a way of resolving disputes. It helps to find solutions together.

In the area of families, family mediation is called. The most common situation occurs after a separation or divorce, to agree on issues concerning the children, but mediation is also valid and applies to other vital differences between people.

What kind of situation can be resolved by means of family mediation?

• Disagreements between parents who have split on how to raise children, where children live, to share the debts or assets, alimony ...

• Disagreements between parents who were divorced or separated for years and want to bring change (school, extracurricular activities, communication problems, etc ...), or seek solutions to problems of children

• Disputes between parents and children

• Disagreements between siblings on the care of their elderly parents or siblings with disabilities

• Contact between grandparents with their grandchildren

• economic disputes between family members

• Family Disputes in family business

• Communication problems between family

• Adoption and foster

Is Mediation the same as arbitration?

No, you ask the arbitration dispute to a third party who issues a decision legally binds you. In mediation, participants maintained control over the results. Simplifying, mediation would be an assisted negotiation.

What are the benefits of family mediation compared to litigation?

➢ Reduce the cost and emotional

➢ a resolution is reached faster

➢ The mediated agreements have a higher rate of compliance because they have both participated in its creation

➢ You go from a situation of winners to losers to one in which all parties stand to gain

At what point of the dispute is best to go to mediation?

Mediation can be beneficial at the beginning of a dispute or in different phases, even when it has initiated legal proceedings.

The more judicialized the case, more negative consequences need to be overcome, but the relief will be increased to reach agreements.

In some countries, as a rule, all couples who separate must go through mediation.