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Family Mediation Jersey can help you make joint decisions to resolve and prevent further disputes.
What happens in mediation
Family Mediation Jersey can help you make joint decisions to resolve and prevent further disputes. Mediation is voluntary and confidential. Freely negotiated decisions can help restore communication, understanding and trust between you. If you have children, you, as parents, are the best people to decide their future, rather than the courts.
Mediators are impartial and non-judgmental. Their job is to support you in reaching the best possible decisions about your family and its future. Mediators won’t tell you what to do, but will help you reach your own agreements. Mediation is a quicker, cheaper and less stressful alternative to using lawyers and the courts for those who are able to use it to resolve their family issues.
Free of charge initial meeting
The process starts with a free of charge initial meeting or intake session for each client.
This is a discussion between you and your mediator about what is happening and what you want to achieve. Intake sessions usually last 45–60 minutes and will include an estimate of the cost of mediation if you wish to go ahead.
Joint mediation session
If everyone thinks it is worth a try, you will move forward to one or more joint mediation sessions.
These usually last for 90 minutes. As a general guide sorting out child issues takes 1-3 sessions, property and finance 2-5 sessions and if discussing everything between 3 and 7 sessions. The number of sessions depends largely on the level of complexity and degree of conflict. And, of course, if you feel that it is not working for you – you can stop at any time.
