Marriage Mediation

While we are qualified to handle Dissolution of Marriage (Divorce) mediation, it is our preference to help couples stay together.  If you find that you are heading in a direction likely to result in divorce, we recommend that you consider Marriage Mediation as an alternative, or an adjunct, to traditional marriage counseling.  In Marriage Mediation, we work with parties to help them look at conflict in a different way and to look for ways to keep and strengthen the covenant they ascribed to - "'till death do us part" when they stood at the altar in front of their friends and family.

Marriage Mediation helps couples take a slow, reasoned approach to conflict resolution and may result in a Post-nuptial Agreement where the parties lay ground rules to help them get past their immediate problems and seek a lasting solution.  When divorce seems to be the only option, that position can become further galvanized by seeing a divorce attorney or divorce mediator who is more likely to turn them from the possibility of reconciliation and toward the path to divorce.  As time progresses, parties can become more and more engaged in the conflict and unable to communicate in a way that is likely to result in the survival of their marriage.

In being zealous advocates, divorce attorneys are going to give advice that protects their clients positions and prepares for the adversarial battle that is divorce.  Marriage Mediation, when used early enough, can help couples see the possibility of a future together.

If, after Marriage Mediation has been attempted, you decide that Divorce is in your best interests, we can recommend attorneys and/or other mediators to help with that process.  It is our opinion that divorce mediation should be conducted by a different mediator in most cases.