Divorce
is Never Easy
Regardless of the reasons behind a divorce, once
you make the decision to separate, you must face all sorts of practical issues.
- How will you handle finances?
- Will you sell the house?
- What happens to health insurance? Life
insurance?
- Retirement savings?
The list may seem endless.
If there are children, the list of issues may
feel overwhelming. Who will have
custody? Where will the children live? Will
you share custody? Where will they spend holidays and summer vacations? How will
the parents share expenses? Who pays for summer camp? Dentists? College? And how
will you continue to communicate and cooperate in making decisions about the
children after the divorce?
Traditional methods of reaching a divorce settlement can be costly, and often leave both people feeling hurt and hostile. This makes communication and cooperation more difficult, both during and after the divorce.
Divorce
Mediation can make it easier.
Whether you have
been married for a few months or for many years, divorce mediation creates an opportunity for couples to work
out the terms of their divorce in less time, with less cost, and often with less
hostility and fewer lasting negative effects.
Unlike the traditional court processes, mediation encourages
couples to take control over the outcome by making their own decisions.
Our professional mediators will not tell you what to do. Rather, they
are trained to help people with differences have productive conversations and
are available to help you to identify and make decisions about issues important to you.
Please contact Josh Hoch, MWI's Director
of Mediation Services, to schedule a no-charge 30-minute meeting with a mediator to get your questions
answered. Appointments are held during the day, evening and weekends in
Boston, East Falmouth, Hingham, Quincy, Norwood, Weymouth and Worcester.
During this meeting, a mediator will explain the divorce mediation process and
answer questions about mediation services. While individuals can participate in
this free session, it is recommended that both husband and wife attend.
Josh
can contact the other person or help you think through how it’s best to raise
the idea of mediation with your spouse.
Open House - Thursdays at Three
Come to MWI on any Thursday at 3:00 PM to speak with a professional mediator, attorney,
financial planner, certified divorce financial analyst, life coach, and/or
mortgage banker and get answers to questions about how these professionals can help
you through the divorce mediation.
Registration is required.
To register for an Open House, please contact Josh
Hoch at jhoch@mwi.org or 617-973-9739 x23.
Mediation sessions are held during the day, early evenings
and weekends. MWI can schedule your mediation within a
few days of your first call. Please
call 800-348-4888 x23 or email MWI's Director of Mediation Services,
Josh Hoch, for more information.
Please call
Josh
Hoch at
800-348-4888 x23 for a detailed quote or
fill out the
Divorce
Mediation Contact Form by clicking here.
Other Services
MWI also offers mediation of separations, post divorce,
family, workplace, and business issues. In
addition, MWI provides training in mediation and negotiation skills to
individuals, groups, universities and corporations.
To have Josh Hoch, MWI's Director of Mediation Services, contact
you, please fill out MWI's secure
Divorce
Mediation Contact Form.
For more information, please call Mediation Works
Incorporated at 800-348-4888 x23 or send an email to divorce@mwi.org.
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