How You and Your Family
Benefit from Mediation
 Mediation...
- Saves Money
- Saves Time
- Reduces Stress
- Reduces Anxiety
- is Non-Threatening
- Provides Increased Flexibility
- Provides Creative Solutions
- is a Confidential Process
- Solves Disputes
- Saves Relationships
- Reduces Conflict
- is Non-Adversarial
- Minimizes Trauma
- is a Cooperative Process
- Promotes Compliance
- Provides Personal Empowerment
- Involves Direct Communications
- Eases Impact on Children
- has No Hidden Charges
- Builds on the Positive
An Additional
Benefit for Parents: the Parenting Coordinator
The most important
issues faced by divorcing parents are those related to their children. Parents
often have strong and bitter conflicts over such issues as visitation,
religious preferences, and custody. As an impartial third person with extensive
experience in settling these emotionally charged issues, our Parenting
Coordinator (P.C.) facilitates the resolution of disputes between parents,
always keeping in mind the best interest of the children. The P.C. will assist
in implementing a parenting plan which demonstrates a safe, healthy and
meaningful parent-child relationship for both parties.
Our P.C. is a
licensed mental health professional and Supreme Court-certified family
mediator, with extensive experience in high conflict disputes and family
dynamics in divorce. Our P.C. is an impartial facilitator whose interest is in
reducing harmful conflct and promoting the best interests of the children who
are in great part involved in these conflicts.
Remember: parents get
divorced… not children. Children both need and desire the
continuing love of, and communication and contact with, both parents.
Even after you are divorced, there will be a lifetime of family events you will
want to attend. Holidays, graduations, marriages, and the birth of new
generations are just a few of these milestones in your children's lives. It is
always in the best interest of the children when parents can create a good
"working" relationship during, and after, divorce.
Our P.C.'s philosophy
is that good parenting has to do most importantly with always treating your
children with love and respect. When this is conveyed using good listening and
appropriate praise, children feel understood and valued. Clear, consistent
rules and boundaries with appropriate consequences give children guidelines
they can follow. It is critical that parents stand united so children have no
doubt that both parents agree on what is best to protect them, and help them
develop into happy, healthy adults with integrity, responsibility, honesty,
respect for others and a strong sense of self worth.
As a mental health
professional, our coordinator understands that break-ups, separation and
divorce challenge individuals to maintain integrity within themselves and
respect for each other, despite painful emotions and difficult tasks. Conflict
resolution requires the goal of fairness and a win-win outcome. Getting even,
retaliation, and inflicting pain are counter-productive to both, and especially
destructive when children are involved. Developing the ability to compromise
and negotiate produces an outcome that can provide much of what everyone needs
within the available resources. This can be facilitated with a mediator to
avoid litigation. When children are involved, much of the focus is on providing
as stable and safe an environment as possible during separation, and on
creating a parenting coalition that attends to the needs and wants of the
children, despite the dissolutions of the partnership or marriage.
At FAMILY MEDIATION CENTERS™ we will help you
reshape your future...
not rehash your past.
Want to
learn more?
Send
us your full name and e-mail address* and we will send you our FREE
"Painless Divorce" e-booklet, containing dozens of tips to help you
breeze through this difficult time.
Still have questions?
Contact us! We are always happy to speak to
you.
*We respect your privacy and will not give your e-mail
address to anyone without your permission.
To learn more about
Sherrie Marcus and Family Legal Services, visit
www.SherrieMarcus.com.
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