Co-Mediation:

We offer and strongly suggest co-mediation to all our prospective clients. In divorce, visitation, custody mediations, and male and female mediation teams have been shown to provide a fair and more balanced agreement than a single mediator.  A team comprised of a divorce attorney and a neutral mediator professional takes advantage of the professional strengths of two disciplines important to the divorce process; legal and psychological complexities of such matters. In addition, the male and female team provides a gender neural model and a good role model interchange for the divorcing couples. 
 

The co-mediation team consits of a gender neutral team, one attorney and one non-attorney professional.   The co-mediation model offers added protection against errors, oversight and omissions and assurance that different voices will be fully heard and that different prospectives will be understood and restated.
In cases where parties are from diverse cultures or speak different languages, our mediation team can provide the bicultural expertise and identify issues from more than one cultural perspective.
 

Benefits of Co-Mediation:

•  Enhanced expertise, insights and listening capacity of mediation team who possess diverse backgrounds, professions and ethnicities;
•  Increase patience, perseverance, listening accuracy by sharing in the responsibility;  
•  Create balance on the mediation team due to gender, background, professions;
•  Multiply the linkages that different parties can develop with the mediators, increasing the stamina and tolerance of the parties who are given a second voice and perspective;
•  Make mediation overall more efficient by a division of tasks among mediators.