Issues that arise post-divorce such as modifications to child support or to your parenting plan (custody, access, visitation) do not have to ruin your relationship with your former spouse or your children.
Modification or Post-Divorce Conflict Mediation Benefits:
- Less expensive than divorce litigation (75% to 85% savings) so you keep more money in your pocket
- Details of your life stay private, not made public in court
- Responsive to older children's changing needs
- Less likely to disrupt younger children's routine after divorce
- Avoids stirring up old arguments and "re-living" the divorce
As children grow older and your personal situation changes, you may want or need to modify or change child support, custody, or other provisions of your divorce decree.
Sometimes post-divorce events that necessitate modification of your divorce decree or parenting plan, like losing or changing jobs, relocating, or buying a car and insuring your teenager, can be even more difficult to deal with than the issues you tackled during the divorce itself. Emotional scars you thought were gone might suddenly re-appear and open old wounds for you and your family. Older children will react differently to conflict than they did when you were first divorced.
Collaborative mediation eases the intensity, and allows for effective communication that saves the children and you from feeling like you are right back where you started when the divorce began. Younger children who have adapted to a divorced family will not have to be stressed by the parents' going to court. When older children feel the need to speak for themselves to be heard, they can safely do it in the protected environment of a private mediation session.
It does not matter if you did not mediate your divorce or parenting plan the first time. Détente Collaborative Mediation can work for all ex-spouses and parents for post-divorce modifications so long as you are willing to try to reach agreement. We do offer a discount to returning clients.
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