Mediation. Mediation is the process by which a skilled, neutral third-party (the Mediator) manages the husband-wife direct face-to-face negotiations of issues between conflicting parties to effectuate an agreement or conciliation of their child-related, support and property disputes. In Mediation, even if the wife and husband each have lawyers to advise them on their legal rights, the parties most often negotiate without the presence of their lawyers. Together the couple make decisions about their children, personal finances and property, to come to an agreement that each person can live with. The parties themselves, through consultation with their attorneys, or other legal information sources, financial and/or mental health professionals, as needed, discuss, unravel facts and figures, negotiate and most often, work out the problems presented by a separation or divorce.
