POOLE
SOLENT
FAMILY
MEDIATION
- Have you recently split from your partner?
- Unsure How to sort finances?
- Kids Caught in the middle?
- Want to avoid going to court?
Solent Family Mediation aids families in disagreement, especially those splitting up or divorcing in Poole. Solent Family Mediation’s service in Poole is quicker and more cost-effective than going to court. It minimises conflict, and your family remains in control of arrangements over children, property, and money.
We operate across the UK, and our family mediation service has over 10 years of experience providing expert, professional family mediation services.
Family mediation is a process where a private, professionally qualified mediator helps you work out arrangements for finances and children following separation. Mediation can also be helpful when previous agreements need to change, especially as your children grow.
Mediation helps you stay in control. No one will make you do anything against your wishes. The mediator will help you find a solution that works for both of you and will explain what needs to happen to make an agreement legally binding.
Solent Family Mediation Registered Mediators have helped thousands of families agree on financial arrangements after separation and find ways to co-parent their children cooperatively. The process is less stressful and significantly quicker than going to court, and it can save you money. If you are financially eligible, legal aid is available.
Mediators work with separating couples in ways that are flexible and perfectly suited to your situation.
If you are in a civil partnership, married, or even cohabiting with your partner and are now considering a separation or divorce, family mediation can help you in coming to an arrangement about a joint property, finance issues, and children.
Solent Family Mediation will ensure that they take you through all the steps necessary to assist you in reaching a united decision.
A family mediator can help you prepare for the future and decide together what will work best for you without having to go to court and ask someone else to decide.
Your local Solent Family Mediation Registered Mediator will assist you in making arrangements about important matters for you and your family when your circumstances change, such as after a divorce or separation.
Family mediation is less difficult, far quicker, and much cheaper than going to court or obtaining legal representation. It helps you make arrangements over property, money, and parenting, allowing you to maintain more control over your family’s future and prioritize your child’s interests. Mediation helps you all move quickly to the next stage of your lives and is effective, with agreements reached in over 70% of cases.
When you separate, it can be challenging to communicate with your ex-partner, let alone reach an agreement about what is best for your family. If you are a parent, it is far better for your children if you and your ex-partner work together to agree on the way forward, but this can be difficult to do on your own.
Family mediation provides a safe and supportive structure to determine the best arrangements for your children, considering what will be important for them as they grow. It also gives you the space and time needed to consider what is most important for your children and the whole family.
Whether you are a parent or not, mediation can help you reach an agreement about how to divide assets, where you will live, and how your future finances will work.
When should you try family mediation? Contact a Solent Family Mediation registered mediator now if you need help sorting things out. Even if you’ve been separated for a while or if your case has already gone to court, mediation can still help resolve issues.
You can’t usually take your case to court until you find out if mediation can help you first. If you can’t show that you’ve considered it, the judge may stop or delay proceedings until you have.
Once you’ve found a mediator, the first step is to attend a Mediation Information and Assessment Meeting (MIAM) in Poole to see if the process is right for you. You may be surprised to find it is – we know that where both former partners attend a MIAM, three-quarters choose to go on to mediate, even if they knew nothing about mediation before the meeting or thought their partner was too unreasonable for mediation to work.
If you believe that your case is not suitable for mediation, you will need to show the court that you’ve attended a MIAM in Poole and considered mediation and other suitable alternatives before going to court, unless specific circumstances exempt you from this requirement.
If you need legal advice to help you during mediation in Poole, that can be arranged at any time during the process. You may be able to get legal aid to cover the cost.