Signs You and Your Spouse Should Consider Divorce Mediation

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Divorce proceedings are often fraught with hostility, negative exchanges, and personal attacks. Such divorce trials are costly, unnecessary, and damaging to future relations between the two parties involved in a divorce. Divorce mediation can provide separating parties with a cost-effective option for creating a mutually beneficial divorce agreement, sometimes in an amicable agreement. Divorce mediations, however, are not for everyone. Read this article for some signs that you and your spouse may be able to settle your divorce through mediation with an experienced divorce lawyer.

You have an amicable relationship
Some couples split because they come to the conclusion that they are incompatible in marriage, but they have no hard feelings toward one another. If this describes the relationship between you and your spouse, you are prime candidates for divorce mediation and should ask a divorce lawyer more about this option.

Confidentiality is important to you
In contested divorce proceedings, information exchanged during negotiation sessions is often included in public record. In mediations, however, the vast majority of sensitive information transferred from you to your lawyer can be kept confidential.

You want to have control over major decisions
In a contested divorce, major decisions such as distribution of financial assets, child custody, child support, and alimony are left up to competing attorneys and a judge. When a divorce is negotiated through mediation, you and your spouse have control over these decisions.

You want to save money
The average transaction costs associated with a contested divorce are more than ten times those associated with mediation. If you and your spouse would like to save this money so that there is more to spread out between the two of you, meet with a divorce lawyer about mediation at your earliest convenience.

Are you looking to save money, retain autonomy, avoid stress, and make your Fort Lauderdale or Miramar divorce easier on your children? If so, call the Law Offices of Jerome P. Ventura at (954) 438-2828 and ask about the divorce mediation process today! With more than twenty years of service to the Dade and Broward County communities, Mr. Ventura’s legal team can provide you with invaluable services.