The first decision in your divorce is crucial, because it often determines what follows. The first divorce professional you see is likely to determine what course your divorce takes. The way you choose to do your divorce, "the process," and the professionals you choose are what's important at the outset, not the settlement terms of money and parenting issues. If you choose Douglas Schoenberg to mediate the divorces, you'll resolve the money and parenting issues through a process that give you the workable settlement both spouses and their children can live with.

Choosing the right mediator often determines if the divorce ruins your life and your children's or if you, your spouse and your children can go on with their lives promptly. Like choosing to litigate, choosing the wrong mediator is a prescription for ending up in life-ruining divorce, time consuming, expensive, acrimonious litigation when the mediation fails.

You need a mediator with a proven track record, with the credentials and mediation experience to help you reach a fair, expeditious settlement of your divorce.

Mediation is the right way to do a divorce because it:

• saves money,
• limits the impact on your children,
• keeps things in control during the divorce,
• gets the divorce over quickly, minimizing the disruption to everyone's lives,
• settles the case reasonably and practically…no one gets "screwed" everyone wins,
• is confidential (your finances and lives are not spread on the public record in court),
• is all about you understanding what's happening, and
• enhances, not destroys, the parties' ability to communicate about the children afterwards.

But you only enjoy those benefits by choosing the right mediator to settle your divorce! Come in for an initial consultation:

• you make no commitment,
• nothing binding happens,
• no decisions are made (except whether to continue mediating), and
• what is discussed is not admissible in court.

The initial consult only costs $375 for 1.5 hours in which we look at:

• what divorce is about, the legal requirement, etc.
• a survey of all your options (mediation, litigation, arbitration, collaborative law, etc.)
• you get all your questions answered (write them down before you come in), and
• and begin the mediation process.

Brief, "free" initial consultations are worth exactly what you pay for them!

Deciding to mediate is not enough…. You have to choose the right mediator

If you've already begun mediation….Douglas Schoenberg will be your advisory attorney, providing whatever legal and mediation related services you require.