The Mediation Process

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We want you to move forward to a positive future. Our mediation fees include unlimited emails and calls before, during and after mediation.

The Mediation Process

Mediation provides a healthy alternative to the stress, angst and expense of divorce litigation. As an experienced divorce mediator, Lisa L. Derr will listen to you throughout the process to help you meet your core needs.

What Will Happen if I Decide to Try Divorce Mediation?

The mediator assists the parties in working out their differences as well as communicating with each other. The mediator clarifies information about legal requirements and testimony for an uncontested divorce.

The mediation agreement that will be drafted by the mediator at the session includes settlement of the following issues:

Child custody and placement schedules
The amount of child support
Whether spousal maintenance will be paid by one party to the other, for how long, and at what amount
Dividing all property
Payment and responsibility for debts
Taxes and exemptions

To Start The Process

You will file your agreement by taking it to the court as a marital settlement agreement.

Simply call or email our office with your name and phone number. Our office will then contact both you and your spouse to set up a call with one of our mediators. She will speak with each of you to answer any questions you may have about the process.

Orientation Session

The mediator explains the process of gathering financial information and the initial paperwork to begin the divorce. From the very beginning, we’ll also discuss which issues are most important to each of you.When you leave your orientation session you will be given everything you need to file your divorce with the court and begin the divorce process.

Mediation Session

The mediator assists you in working out your differences with the goal of finding mutually beneficial solutions. As each issue is addressed, you and the mediator draft the mediation agreement, which becomes part of your final divorce judgment.

Common Mediated Family Law Issues:

At the end of the session we will review detailed instructions to finish your divorce. You will file your divorce papers with your mediation agreement and both parties will attend your final hearing. As we are not your divorce attorneys, we do not attend the final hearing.

We encourage you to contact us with any questions throughout the process.

To begin the mediation process, call Derr & Villarreal, LLC Attorneys & Mediators at <a href=”tel:920-885-5549″>920-885-5549</a> or fill out the contact form below. Our divorce mediator will answer any questions that you might have.