FAMILY MEDIATION SERVICES

Artful Mediation's Family Mediation Services help families practice peace-making skills, wisdom, and simple common sense even in high conflict family situations.  A professional mediator can be of assistance helping close friends and family:

• Resolve disputes within and between families, including those involving parents, children, adult children, and family businesses
• Prepare pre-nuptial agreements
• Work constructively through separation or divorce
• Consider and/or negotiate estate planning
• Consider and/or negotiate end-of-life issues
• Negotiate disability issues within the family and with support services

COLLABORATIVE DIVORCE

Cost is often sited as a principal advantage of mediation over litigation in cases of marital breakdown.  Indeed studies indicate that mediation usually costs only 10% of what a similar litigated family law case will cost.  Litigation often consumes considerable time and can acerbate hurtful situations.  Through mediation it is important that everyone's interests are protected, and new ways of relating are explored. 

We work collaboratively with lawyers and therapists in all sorts of family mediations and divorce mediations so you get the help you need to work constructively through your conflicts. 

Our mediators can help you work out a Marital Settlement Agreement, and coach you through the legal processes of separation and divorce.