Mediators @ Vaal for Family and Divorce Mediation
Mediation is a voluntary and informal process during which a mediator assists two parties during a dispute, with a view to reaching a joint agreement.
When is Family and Divorce Mediation valuable?
• Any matters regarding divorce, before or after.
• Matters concerning minor children, before or after divorce.
• Biological parents who are not legally married.
Mediators @ Vaal deliver like this? service in the Vaal Triangle and wider.
Divorce is very traumatic, and often? expensive process. Does that make mediation? ideal alternative to? protracted and expensive legal process.
I.p.v. that each party bears the costs for? own lawyer, see the parties? mediator of their choice, and the mediator helps the parties reach agreements. Issues such as asset allocation, contact with children, guardianship and maintenance are handled. The mediator is impartial and acts in the best interests of the children and helps put options on the table so that the parties can make informed decisions. The decisions are in? MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT summarized and able to? attorney who transcribes it into legal terms for the settlement agreement.
If there are minor children involved, parents can be referred by the Children's Court for mediation. The Children's Act states that the best interests of the child are given the highest priority and that the voice of the child must be heard.
The Children's Act provides for? PARENTSHIP PLAN describing how the parents can fulfill their rights and responsibilities the children are going to exercise. In the parenting plan, things like contact, holidays, contact with extended families, interviewing, death of both parents, etc. be outlined.
Mediation is used meaningfully in cases where the biological parents are not married and there is conflict over, among other things. contact with minor and maintenance. ? Parenting plan is compiled on how the biological parents will exercise their rights and responsibilities. The parenting plan can? order made by the court.
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