Do you need help with child custody, separation, divorce or other family matters?
Our family and divorce mediation team members are fully qualified in Massachusetts to support families with all aspects of conflict resolution. With decades of experience and many successful self-determined agreements, our family mediation program is here to help.
Healthy Separation
Fairly often couples come to us in need of our calm, caring and neutral assistance as they move to resolve conflicts within their relationships. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ mediation case. We work with families from wherever they are starting, moving clients through an orderly decision-making process. Often couples see their situation as too tangled and emotionally charged to be sorted out. Yet no matter how difficult the situation, our amazing mediators are professional and optimistic. We have never turned away any family no matter how complicated their situation. MVMP family/divorce mediators have a very high success rate.
Child Custody, Child Support and Parenting Plans
Even long separated parents need help in figuring out how to share their parental responsibilities. Thanks to a generous Commonwealth grant, we are able to provide parents with sliding fee rate mediation sessions to sort out how to make decisions in the interests of their children’s well-being.
Divorce
Once a couple has decided to divorce, our mediators have the experience to guide them through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts legal process toward a final decree of divorce. We offer three options, dependent upon the family’s circumstance.
· Option One: Mediators review the process of filing your own uncontested divorce with the Probate/Family court. Generally, this option works best for couples with no children, no real estate and little/no debt.
· Option Two: Mediators work with the couple to develop a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that represents the decisions made in their own words. The couple then retains their own attorneys and their counsel develop a Separation Agreement –the legal document that is filed in court.
· Option Three: Mediators work with the couple to develop a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that represents the decisions made in their own words. Then after reviewing the MOU with their own attorneys, our in-house scrivener (a lawyer who works for us and not for either client) and creates the Separation Agreement—the legal document that is filed in court. Mediators prepare the clients to go into court and assist with the process of getting all documents ready to file.
We are proud to offer these services to our community and use a generous sliding fee scale to assure that our community is able to have the support needed in order to solve problems and move on with their lives in a positive and peaceful way.