Family Mediation
Settling Disputes
Why use mediation to resolve family disputes?
Money, property, and children. These tend to be the focus of most family mediation negotiations. Family issues can become exceedingly difficult to resolve without help. A roller coaster of emotions can well up, fighting may become non-stop, or it is simply challenging to communicate with each other.
At JRB Mediations our unwavering dedication lies in assisting parties during the difficult, emotional, and anxiety-inducing journey of family dispute resolution.
Our Family Mediation Services
JRB Mediations specializes in mediation, not law.
We are the cost-effective alternative for your mediation needs.
Our Services Include:
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Property Division
Property division, which includes both assets and debts, can be contentious and emotional.
JRB Mediations can help you reach a negotiated and mediated fair division of such property.
It is important to identify property acquired when the marriage or interdependent partnerships began, its current value, and what property may be exempt.
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Spousal Support
Spousal support is not a given. At times it is not even on the table. Several factors are considered such as entitlement, amount, duration, financial means, need, length of marriage or cohabitation, etc.
JRB Mediations helps you sift through many of these factors to help you negotiate a fair and reasonable agreement.
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Child Support
JRB Mediations helps you determine a fair and reasonable amount of child support, which is typically based on the Federal Child Support Guidelines, each parents’ income, and the amount of time children spend with either parent.
Special Expenses may also be negotiated. These are based upon the ability to pay and needs of the child. They include childcare, post-secondary school, uninsured health needs, healthcare insurance premiums, extracurricular activities, etc.
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Child Access
Child access involves parents reaching an agreement on how they will take care of and spend time with their children.
It may also include decisions around schooling, travel, healthcare, after-school activities, etc.
JRB Mediations knows how important your children are and can help you reach agreements that are in the best interests of your children.
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Separation Coaching
When your partner or spouse does not want to participate in mediation JRB Mediations can help you to continue to move forward with your life.
We work with you to help you develop your own proposal for family separation issues to help prepare you to confidently engage with your lawyer.
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Other Family Conflict
JRB Mediations helps families resolve issues around:
family businesses
succession planning
estate issues
elder care
other family issues
We listen, dig for the issues, and help you move toward understanding and agreement via family conflict mediation.
JRB Mediations
Has the fighting become nonstop?
Is it difficult to communicate with each other?
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To ensure that separation mediation is both effective and timely, it is important that both parties provide us with their financial disclosure information and share it with each other.
Having necessary information and knowledge is crucial for making informed mediated decisions.
To ensure you are prepared for mediation and make informed decisions during mediated negotiations, you may consider seeking legal advice prior to mediation. This will ensure you know your rights and responsibilities pertaining to key issues such as property division, spousal and child support, and child access/custody.
Financial Disclosure
JRB Mediations is about helping people.
When life gets tough you want to be able to trust someone who understands your situation and has the knowledge and experience to guide you through it.
At JRB Mediations’ we create a safe environment for people in conflict to have in-depth, open and respectful discussions with each other so they may seek understanding of each other’s perspectives and find solutions everyone agrees with.
We help people resolve conflicts quickly and cost effectively. We use our proven negotiation methods to facilitate and manage the mediation process, guiding parties through the complexities and emotions of negotiations to a mediated win-win resolution and agreement.
“You may not get what you want, but if you try, you may get what you need” – Annoymous
What is the goal of family mediation?
JRB Mediations specializes in mediation. Our goal is to help families in dispute resolve their issues fairly so they can move forward in their lives and put their dispute behind them. We are trained to ensure strong emotions such as hurt, anger, fear, resentment, etc. do not hinder effective and respectful negotiations and decision making.
Whether or not you are struggling with a dispute, JRB Mediations can help you resolve your issues.
We assist those who may want to:
resolve their conflict quickly and efficiently
negotiate a fair agreement, rather than fight it out in court
avoid using costly lawyers to mediate their dispute
move on with the next chapter in their life
retain some form of a relationship
“You think you know what I said, but I'm not sure you understood what I meant.”
- A. Greenspan