Couples Mediation
Finding Harmony
Explore Staying Married
Fighting With Your Partner
It sounds strange, but a divorce mediator might be able to help you stay married. There are many couples who love each other and want to be married, but their money arguments make it seem impossible. Married couples can create post-marital agreements that change how they hold assets or allocate income. Having a written agreement can help overcome fears about investments, job changes and spending. This is not marital counseling or therapy – it is a guided discussion about how you can create a marital contract to manage finances in a way that benefits your relationship to stop the fighting. It’s problem solving at a practical level.
Protecting Yourselves
Divorce is Not Your Only Option
Exploring Trial Separation
The choice to divorce is rarely made overnight. Couples often want a trial separation instead of filing for divorce. What if you and your spouse are considering a separation but you are scared about what your financial situation and obligations would be in that situation? If you are considering a separation, Julie can help you create a plan to protect yourselves while you are living separately. Divorce is not your only option.
Education In Mediation
We all vaguely understand that there are legal consequences when you get married or when you separate, but few people know what options they have to manage those consequences. Mediation gives you an opportunity to explore options around managing money and sort through your legal rights while addressing solutions for conflict.
Many people learn too late that their financial decisions during marriage or a temporary separation had legal consequences that they did not expect. The results of what they didn’t know can be devastating, emotionally and financially. That’s why education is important and why Julie provides that service as part of all her mediations.
What to Expect
Julie is a very creative problem solver with a commitment to finding options that reduce conflict and allow you to determine your future. When working with her you can expect Julie to do the following: :
- Minimize and neutralize conflict to keep you focused on your path to a new life
- Tailor the discussion and mediation to your unique, individual needs
- Ensure your process addresses more than just the law,
- Honestly face the reality of the decisions that must be made
- Creatively find options for resolution
- Weigh the strengths and vulnerabilities of each option.
Benefits of Mediation by Video Conference
Our society has also changed and now videoconferencing has given people a more efficient way to meet with professionals. Having conducted hundreds of mediations by video conference since March 2020, Julie has found that it reduces conflict in the mediation process, reduces anxiety because people do not need to be physically together, and it is more efficient.