What matters can be discussed in family mediation

Mediation may cover any or all of the following matters:

• options for maintaining or ending the marital or other relationship between the adult participants and the consequences of doing so;

• arrangements for dependant children:-
- with whom they are to live;
- what contact they are to have with each parent and other family members;
- any other aspect of parental responsibility such as, but not exhaustively,
schooling, holidays, religious education;

• the future of the family home and any other property or assets, including pensions, belonging to the adult participants; issues of child maintenance and spousal maintenance; issues relating to debts;

• how adjustments to these arrangements are to be decided upon in the future;

• participants and the mediator may agree that mediation will cover any other matters which it would be helpful to resolve in connection with relationship breakdown between the participants and which the mediator considers suitable for mediation.

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• who is family mediation for?
• Why use mediation?
• How does mediation work?
• Do I have to attend family mediation?
• How neutral and impartial is the family mediator?
• Confidentiality in the meetings?
• Independence of the mediator and Conflicts of interest?
• Privilege and Legal Proceedings?
• Welfare of Children?
• Abuse and power imbalances within the family?
• Conduct of the mediation?