Comprehensive Divorce Mediation

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With the joint mediation process, Ms. Marias, a trained mediator, empowers the two of you to decide outcomes. Instead of a court's default parenting plan, you can design timeshare arrangements that work with your family's unique schedules and your children's needs. Instead of a court taking a hatchet and dividing your marital estate in two, Ms. Marias can help you use a scalpel to carefully carve out the best equal division of assets and debts to maximize value and best meet the needs of your situation. 

Mediation keeps decision-making power with the people most knowledgeable and most impacted by divorce decisions. Instead of rolling the dice with a judge and turning the process of interaction over to attorneys, mediation can strengthen skills for future interactions. Joint mediation is a respectful divorce process where Ms. Marias as a neutral, third person, helps people in conflict:

• identify specific issues of contention, 
• understand their core needs and values, 
• understand the other person's core needs and values, 
• brainstorm resolutions that meet as many core needs as possible, 
• develop clear and specific agreements, 
• consider foreseeable obstacles, and 
• reduce agreements to a written document.

When combined with Holistic Divorce Education, the mediation process becomes streamlined as parties now have emotion management and communication skills to guide their conduct. This allows the mediation process to operate with heightened efficiency, and it is easier to develop solutions that mutually satisfy the parties' core needs.  This helps parties more quickly resolve their divorce conflicts leading to significant cost-saving as compared to the traditional litigated divorce.