When you and your former partner have both met with the mediator for your MIAM (mediation information and assessment meetings), the mediator will help you prepare for your financial mediation process in several ways, depending on your situation and the support you need.
Child inclusive mediation involves giving children (of an appropriate age) a voice and opportunity to be able to express their wishes and feelings (without pressure or influence) to an independent child expert when their parents separate and use the mediation session to make important decisions about them.
This may be your first separation and divorce and everything feels very unfamiliar as you try to get to grips with all the massive changes going on in life.
The DDSA 2020 brings divorce law in line with the government’s approach to family justice-avoiding conflict wherever possible and reducing its damaging effects on children in particular.
In this series, we set out how we believe solicitors can best support you and your former partner, in the most effective way, at each stage of the financial mediation process, looking at the mediation process in 5 main stages.
How do children respond to parental separation?
‘A goal without a plan is just a wish’
The approach to the business valuation process can be summed up as follows: keep it simple, keep it relevant to the issues and outcome(s) you are trying to achieve and, keep it proportionate to the costs of the valuation process.
If you are going through divorce the chances are that you and your former partner will have one or more pensions to consider.
Unless you really want to reach a financial agreement together in mediation this chapter, the guides and forms are not for you because mediation is certainly not the ‘easy’ option.
