Throughout the process, we maintain a neutral stance, ensuring that both parties’ voices are heard, and their interests are considered. Our goal is to help you reach a comprehensive separation agreement that addresses all aspects of your separation, while minimizing conflict and preserving important relationships. By choosing our mediation services, you can navigate your separation with greater control, reduced stress, and significant cost savings compared to traditional litigation.
Throughout mediation, we guide you through the valuation process, often coordinating with financial professionals when necessary for complex assets. Our mediators assist you and your spouse to explore various division scenarios and understand the long-term implications of different options. Our goal is to help you reach a mutually acceptable agreement on property equalization, often finding creative solutions that satisfy both parties’ needs and interests. By choosing our mediation services, you can navigate this process more efficiently, with less conflict, and often at a lower cost than traditional litigation, while ensuring a fair and comprehensive division of your marital assets
We aim to help you reach an acceptable agreement that meets your children’s needs while considering both parents’ financial circumstances. By choosing our mediation services for child support matters, you can often achieve a more flexible and personalized arrangement than a court-imposed order, potentially reducing conflict and fostering better co-parenting relationships.
Throughout the process, we strive to balance the needs of the recipient spouse with the financial capabilities of the paying spouse. Our goal is to help you reach a spousal support agreement that provides financial stability while promoting independence where possible. By utilizing our mediation services for spousal support matters, you can often achieve a more flexible and tailored arrangement that addresses the unique aspects of your situation, potentially avoiding the rigidity of court-imposed orders.
While we don’t offer legal advice, we help couples understand the typical components of these agreements and identify areas that may require special attention. Once the couple has reached a mutual understanding on the terms, we will draft the applicable document that the parties can then take to their respective lawyers for independent legal advice prior to signing.
Our mediated approach often results in more personalized, mutually satisfactory agreements while potentially saving time and reducing costs compared to purely lawyer-driven negotiations.
For those without a prior agreement, we can assist in drafting an agreement that outlines the terms of your separation such as property division, support arrangements, and parenting plans if needed.
Our goal is to help you initiate the divorce process ensuring all required information is included and properly presented. By utilizing our services during the divorce application phase, you can often achieve a smoother transition into the legal process, with clearer expectations and a stronger foundation for finalizing your divorce.
Throughout the mediation, we keep the focus on your children’s best interests, helping you create a plan that provides stability, maintains important relationships, and allows for flexibility as your family’s needs evolve. By choosing our mediation services for developing your parenting plan, you can often achieve a more personalized and mutually satisfactory arrangement than a court-imposed order, setting a positive foundation for your ongoing co-parenting relationship.
Throughout the mediation process, we encourage open communication and creative problem-solving, often uncovering mutually beneficial solutions. Our goal is to help you create a separation agreement that provides clarity and stability during this transitional period, while also being flexible enough to adapt to future changes.
By choosing our mediation services for your separation agreement, you can often achieve a more personalized and comprehensive document than one created through traditional legal channels, potentially saving time, reducing costs, and laying the groundwork for a more amicable post-separation relationship.
*The information included in a Separation Agreement, or other applicable documents, is purely a guide and cannot substitute for a lawyer’s skill, knowledge, and careful drafting. These documents are simply reflective of the information received from you and are an administrative service only.
Positive Solutions Divorce Services® does not warrant and is not liable or responsible for ensuring the validity and/or enforceability of any Agreement or clause in an Agreement and remains your full and sole responsibility. Full financial disclosure is a crucial element in the preparation of any Agreement. It is also critical that you understand your rights and obligations under existing law.
In many circumstances, the Agreement will be addressing complex assets and issues, such as corporations, trusts, pensions, tax implications etc. In these cases, it is imperative that the actual relevant documentation be reviewed and that the expertise of an accountant or specialist in the subject area be consulted to ensure that the Agreement properly addresses these complex assets and issues. It is strongly recommended that you retain Independent Legal Advice before signing any documentation arising out of the end of your marriage or common law relationship.
