The benefits of a mediated divorce:

• Control your own divorce process and costs.


• Make your own decisions, instead of having strangers make them for you.
  
• Preserve a working relationship with the other parent of your children.
  
• Maintain dignity in reaching an agreement that is fair to both you and your spouse.
  
• Control the cost of your divorce case and preserve marital assets that would otherwise be used to finance a court battle.
  
• Improve communication skills and understand each other’s concerns in order to enhance post-divorce relations and reduce long-term stress.
  
• Improve the quality of life for your children by reducing hostility and tension.
  
• Address emotional issues that stand in the way of resolving disputes so that you can increase the likelihood of compliance with the divorce settlement.
  
• Parties who negotiate agreements in mediation are more likely to live up to their agreements and avoid post-divorce problems and litigation than couples who have decisions made for them by the court.