Owings Mills Mediation

During the last decade, mediation has emerged as an increasingly popular way for couples to avoid the high emotional and financial cost of litigated divorces. Rather than pay lawyers to negotiate the terms of their divorce, couples sit down with a neutral intermediary (their mediator) to discuss and agree on a fair and reasonable settlement.

In mediation, spouses maintain control of their divorce rather than turn it over to lawyers and judges. They also avoid the adversarial nature of our litigation system. Instead of fighting each other to "win" all they can, they cooperate to achieve a result they both can live with. Even couples who don't resolve all their issues in mediation usually agree on many of them. That means fewer questions for their attorneys or their judge to decide and therefore less conflict and less expense.

Why this sudden growth of interest in something that has been around since New Testament times? The simple and probably best answer is that divorce mediation works and it works exceedingly well. A more complex answer is the public's growing dissatisfaction with the adversarial process of our legal system. Another answer is the mental health profession's research findings that indicate that children of divorce are harmed more by their parents' conflict that by any other single factor.

Divorce Without War!

11447 Cronhill Drive. Suite L
Owings Mills, MD 21117
Email: owingsmillsmediation@yahoo.com

Phone: 410.581.3595
http://www.owingsmillsmediation.com

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