Marital and Divorce Mediation » Complex Issues
Some of the most common complex issues are Spousal Support, Caring For Children, Taxes, Valuing Property, Business Valuations, and Retirement Accounts.
Combining Other Disciplines. When we have complex issues, we get expert help and join them in the process as joint advisors. This is economical and more useful in helping you both explore together and equally understand the nature of your complex concerns. By doing this as a joint process you benefit from each others’ thinking and questioning. Ultimately, you share the same information and understandings.
For example knowing what is in the best interests of the children, requires sophisticated knowledge of children, their psychological growth and development, the separation process and the causes of injury to children from separation, the tension between you, your capacity to resolve that tension and your capacity to empathize with the children, to work collaboratively in making their legal decisions and to learn and follow expert advice. We can have a child psychologist prepare a custody and parenting plan and advise you on all of these issues. Unlike their use in court, in mediation, you may continue using them as an advocate for the children or a counselor for them and for advice and guidance in parenting the children as they mature.
Another common example is deciding spousal support. Often you want to know what the “community standard of fairness” is. We hire a neutral lawyer to provide that for us or if one or both of you is represented, we use your attorneys’ opinion letters to explain the factors and the calculation of spousal support. Then we evaluate their combined input and together come to a fair use of their recommendations.
Whatever expertise is needed, we jointly employ one experts to advise you both, and in this way, you act as co-judges in coming to a fair understanding and agreement on how to use their evaluations and advice.
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