Family Disputes

3 Tips to Prepare You For a Divorce Mediation

Divorce doesn’t always have to be contentious, and it certainly doesn’t have to end up in a court battle. Granted, it can be hard to be civil in certain scenarios and even more difficult to put emotions aside and come to a resolution.

You don’t have to do it alone, though. Divorce mediation, with the help of a professional and experienced mediator, can be a great way to settle your divorce without it turning into a large battle. Before you begin

Separation Mediation Baltimore

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MEDIATION WORKS FOR SEPARATING COUPLES OR FAMILIES

Separation is sometimes used to give couples a chance to get a better perspective on their relationship. Although seen by some as a first step towards divorce, in reality the distance provided by separation can allow for couples to take a meaningful look at their relationship. In many cases, having an impartial mediator can help couples open a dialogue about the problems they face. The mediator facilitates meaningful dialogue and informed decision-making about difficult

Baltimore Divorce Mediation

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MEDIATION WORKS FOR DIVORCING COUPLES OR FAMILIES

People facing the difficult decision to divorce, or the painful experience of having the other spouse choose an unwanted divorce, can realize important benefits from mediation. The mediator facilitates meaningful dialogue and informed decision making about difficult and often complex issues surrounding a decision to divorce. In divorce mediation, couples may address their overall goals and what they believe is appropriate and responsive to their situation, and may then deal with conflicts as well as difficult but necessary decision making involving custody of children, parenting arrangements, child support of both minor and adult children, spousal support, real and personal property distribution, other financial asset division, debt allocation and responsibility, retirement plans, insurance plans and taxes.

Our Approach to Mediation in Baltimore for Families

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Mediation and Baltimore Mediation’s Transformative Approach

WHAT IS MEDIATION?

Mediation in Baltimore is a voluntary and confidential process that uses an impartial third person, the mediator, to facilitate meaningful conversation between two or more people about difficult issues. The goal is to help people constructively engage in conflict and make informed and thoughtful decisions. The mediator does not offer legal, financial or psychological advice, nor does a mediator tell parties what to do. Instead, the mediator invites the parties to speak about

Marital Conflicts Baltimore

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MEDIATION WORKS FOR COUPLES AND FAMILIES WANTING TO PRESERVE THEIR MARRIAGE BUT FACED WITH CONFLICT, DIFFICULT OR COMPLEX CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE DECISIONS NEED TO BE MADE

When couples or families desire to stay together, but are faced with difficult or complex circumstances challenging their relationship, or creating stress points or fractures on the quality of their interaction, mediation can provide a breath of fresh air for the situation.

Post-Divorce

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MEDIATION WORKS FOR DIVORCED PARENTS FACING CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES

When post-divorce changes in parenting arrangements or child or spousal support are desired by one or both parties due to significant changes in circumstances such as relocations, new living or work situations, or changes in the lives of the children, parents welcome having a safe, impartial environment to discuss these types of issues.

Parent -Teen Conflicts

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MEDIATION WORKS FOR PARENTS AND TEENS NEEDING TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER AND CREATE NEW WAYS OF COMMUNICATION AND RELATING

It is often difficult for all parties during the teenage years to maintain the relationship they desire with each other while also balancing responsibility, independence, and newly discovered boundaries. When families, parents, and teenagers find that their relationship has changed and has become stressful or a battleground, mediation is an ideal forum for communication and goal clarification.

Partnership Dissolution

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MEDIATION WORKS FOR PARTNERSHIP DISSOLUTION

Mediation is an ideal forum, as well as an alternative forum, for addressing the needs of unmarried couples, as well as, gay and lesbian couples, who are working through a separation of their relationship and acquired property. Mediation can help resolve issues for those who have lived together or bought property together, parented a child together, and/or formed a business together while being involved in an emotional and personal relationship with one another.

Baltimore Trust and Estate Disputes

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MEDIATION WORKS FOR FAMILIES AND SIBLINGS IN DISPUTE OVER INHERITED PROPERTY INCLUDING SUMMER HOMES AND CHERISHED PERSONAL PROPERTY

When parents pass away, it is not only often a painful experience emotionally, but it also often brings about changed situations financially. It can even be a situation of relief mixed with grief and guilt, when the parent died after great suffering, or died when family conflicts were unresolved. Property is often left to children in the form of real estate or stocks.

Elder Care Conflicts

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MEDIATION WORKS FOR FAMILIES FACING CHANGED LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES WITH ELDERLY PARENTS

When one elderly parent either passes away leaving the other elderly parent living alone, or when one or both parents are growing older and in need of greater attention or care, grown children often struggle out of concern and love for the best course of action.

Facilitation Baltimore

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FACILITATION APPROACH

Baltimore Mediation has extensive experience in mediating family disputes, we offer the facilitation Baltimore trusts. Whether a disagreement between two siblings or the entire family, Baltimore Mediation successfully allows for everyone to be heard where a potentially divisive conflict could have occurred. Mediation can turn contention into an experience of clarity and strength for all which has promoted informed decision making, stronger relationships and the emotion involved in decisions concerning family.

Baltimore Mediation’s systems approach and transformative model which, focuses

Eldercare Facilitated Dialogue and Shared Decision Making

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FACILITATION WORKS FOR FAMILIES FACING CHANGED LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES WITH ELDERLY PARENTS

Families today are assuming responsibility for the informal care of over 75% of elderly family members, and are often faced with difficult decisions from a bewildering array of choices including alternative living arrangements, financial issues, and multidisciplinary care. In the best of circumstances, this can be a stressful process, and sometimes leads to disagreements, confusion, and conflict at a time when the best intentions of the family are to work

Family Meetings

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FACILITATON WORKS FOR FAMILIES FACING SERIOUS DECISION-MAKING AFFECTING FINANCES, LIVING, QUALITY OF LIFE

Most families with children face numerous conflicts, whether during the teen years, relating to role changes in the family, because of job changes, because of school changes, because of serious illness and the attendant financial and role changes related to that, or because of any of a number of life’s stresses. Many families are able to work through the daily or routine conflicts on their own. However, when

Baltimore Family Mediation

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FAMILY CONFERENCING WORKS FOR FAMILIES FACING SERIOUS OR STRESSFUL SITUATIONS WHERE THEY NEED TO WORK TOGETHER

Baltimore family mediation, facilitated family meetings, and family property mediation are often referred to as Family Conferencing, which can be extremely beneficial when multiple people in a family are involved in a serious situation where a decision must be made. Family Conferencing offers a process that can reduce stress for a family, including those most closely affected by the conflict or by the decisions. Family

Family Business Meetings

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FACILITATED FAMILY BUSINESS MEETINGS WORK FOR FAMILIES WHO WANT TO PRESERVE IMPORTANT FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND MAKE SMART BUSINESS DECISIONS AS WELL

Families who own substantial assets or who own a family business often have the need to collaborate and plan together to preserve and grow their assets and/or their business for the next generation. They do not necessarily have conflicts with each other, but rather they simply recognize that with more than two family members, the likelihood of having a more

Family Business Succession Planning

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FACILITATED FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION PLANNING MEETINGS WORK FOR FAMILIES WHO WANT TO PRESERVE IMPORTANT FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND MAKE SMART BUSINESS DECISIONS AS WELL

Most families who own a their own business face numerous conflicts, whether relating to employees, finances, financial reverses, strategic planning, resource use, leveraging, product changes, market changes, serious illness, divorce, remarriage, and death. One of the most under-addressed yet serious needs for family owned businesses is the discussion of a succession plan.

Pre-Marriage Dialogue and Decision Making

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MEDIATION WORKS FOR PRE-MARRIAGE DIALOGUE, DISCERNMENT AND DECISION-MAKING

Mediation promotes an atmosphere of mutual trust that fosters the ability to communicate concerns about the future, and to have a meaningful dialogue about such concerns. With the help of a third party neutral mediator, couples already engaged or considering a life time commitment to each other are able to discuss and consider the other’s perspectives on various topics including to marry or not marry, in-law relationships, sibling relationships, finances, lifestyle choices, previous