Divorce mediation saves your children from having to work with strangers to resolve personal family issues.
As a parent, every time I hear of divorcing parents being forced to allow court-appointed lawyers, court-appointed “forensics” and court-appointed “guardians” to become involved with their children, I cringe.
Why are strangers imposed on your children and your family?
When you choose to litigate a divorce rather than mediate a divorce, there will invariably be “two sides” of the story presented to the court. In all fairness to divorce courts and matrimonial judges around New York State, the court has no way of knowing which parent is telling the truth or where the truth lies.
What New York courts often do, whether it’s family court or supreme court, is assign lawyers for the children, order “forensics” (psychological and other evaluations of the children) and appoint guardians for the children.
These court-appointed professionals then analyze your kids and report to the court.
Often, the end result is that you lose the ability to choose resolutions for your own kids. You lose the ability to fashion a resolution that fits your family…your “new family,” with two households and maybe new significant others, and new financial and child-care issues
Divorce mediation removes the need for the parents to go to court and eliminates the need and risk for court-appointed lawyers, forensics and guardians, and all of the other intrusive tools New York State courts and judges may decide to impose on your family.
Divorce mediation keeps both parents in their roles as decision makers for the children, and places both parents on a level playing field. Divorce mediation eliminates the war that courtroom divorces encourage.
Aren’t you in the best position to determine what’s best for your children? Divorce mediation allows the parents to create a reasonable parenting schedule that best fits your new family.
Divorce mediation is completed in an atmosphere of joint cooperation instead of courtroom battles.
Divorce mediation allows you to continue to decide what is best for your kids instead of having your role as decision makers handed off to strangers.
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Source: Cory J. Rosenbaum, P.C., a professional corporation for the practice of injury, employment and matrimonial law. For more information or to schedule a consultation, call 212-732-7922 (NYC office) or 516-670-9332 (Uniondale office), or visit CoryRosenbum.com, PreDivorceLaw.com and NonToxicDivorce.com
