Law Office of Tammy Jaques, P.A.  Mediation Division

During a traditional divorce, each party retains an attorney. The attorney’s job is not to encourage positive communication. Instead, an attorney’s primary goal is to protect his/her client’s legal rights and interests. An attorney may embark on a discovery process with the goal of finding dirty secrest, undisclosed financial information, in order to get the upper hand or secure additional funds for his/her client. In the end, the family suffers no matter who wins.  Relationships are often damaged beyond repair.

Dissolving a relationship does not have to be a search and destroy mission.  After all, if you have children, you will share a lifetime with the other party regardless of your future choices.  There will be graduations, grandchildren, and gravesites.  Your actions now will impact whether these events are war zones or cordial gatherings.

A Mediated Dissolution:

• Protects Relationships
• Benefits Children by Reducing Conflict
• Is done at the convenience of the parties, not the court
• Is informal and more comfortable than a courtroom
• Establishes a foundation for future co-parenting
• Focuses on the future and not the past
• Avoids public airing of personal matters
• Maintains the control of the parties
• Controls costs
• Is confidential
• Enables the parties to emerge from the process with their image and self-respect intact