post-settlement mediation
negotiating adjustments for the changes life brings
things change
Kids change as they grow up. Parents experience changes in perspective and priorities, and families blend. Sometimes parenting agreements need tweaking after you’ve been divorced for a while, and you need to get settled in to a new way of doing things that is more appropriate to your current situation.
We can work together to help you negotiate decisions about things like:
geographic relocation
choosing schools or medical care decisions
making changes to your placement plan
talking through your variable expense reconciliation
mediation locates common ground
As mediators, we are trained to identify your shared interests and common ground. Having a facilitator who is trained in parenting skills and child development (and who has personal experience with this process!) moves your discussions and decisions forward, maintaining the kids’ best interest as the highest priority.
Our work can include a Memorandum of Understanding as an Addendum to your Marital Settlement Agreement, should you choose to file your changes with the court.
how we work
We can often talk through changes in placement, a holiday plan, or decisions about summer camp or extra-curricular activities in a single fifty-minute session, or maybe two. Once we meet, we’ll give you a clearer sense of the timeline for your process.
“When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at least, begun to.”