How a Mediated Divorce Can Help Arguing Spouses

Mediation can work for divorcing people no matter what stage they are in their relationship with each other. Oftentimes at the beginning of a divorce process people are upset, angry, betrayed, bringing the history of their marriage into a mediation setting, and I generally redirect them to what the issue is at hand and the issue at hand would be resolving all their financial parenting disputes and coming up with an agreement that works for both parties and occasionally in mediation one spouse appears to be extremely angry with the other, we might just take a timeout for a few minutes, I might talk to that spouse individually to see what the concern is, and generally we can move beyond whatever the anger or hostility is between the spouses.

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