by admin | May 30, 2018 | Conflict, Family, Mediation, Separation
The fundamental principle, when dealing with cases involving children, is that their welfare is paramount and their best interests must come first. Sometimes parents dealing with their own emotions forget their children may also be suffering. Their lives will change...
by admin | May 23, 2018 | Conflict, Divorce, Family, Mediation, Separation
I regularly mediate child arrangements between parents who have very limited communication or none at all. They often ask for help working out a schedule setting out how their child will share time with each of them. As a very new trainee mediator, I co-mediated child...
by admin | May 16, 2018 | Divorce, Entertaining Children, Family, Mediation
When people split up they often try to get the better of the other person. They most often fight about money. Resources feel scarce. You may think if the other person has more, you will have less. This seems unfair and a struggle for money can begin. However, our...
by admin | May 9, 2018 | Conflict, Divorce, Mediation, Uncategorized
When a relationship breaks down one party leaves and wants to separate. The person who is left can feel angry, abandoned, a high level of anxiety, hurt and a sense of loss. These feelings are similar to those we experience during bereavement and the separation and...
by admin | May 2, 2018 | Divorce, Family, Mediation
Sadly badmouthing the other parent to a child is an issue that’s often raised in mediation – with each parent accusing the other. Why would loving parents do this? Separation can create a huge & painful trauma. They may each feel they have been vey badly...