What to Tell Your Kids During Your Divorce with John Yacos
Rachel chats with Matrimonial and Family Law Litigation Attorney, John Yacos.
Review of The Marriage Story from a Divorce Mediator
In this review, I am focusing on the role of the divorce professionals portrayed (which were horrifying) and what we can learn from Noah Baumbach’s The Marriage Story.
WARNING- the following contains spoilers. Don’t read it if you have not yet seen the film.
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8 Reasons To Try Mediation:
1. Faster Path to Closure:
You may have been wronged – but getting stuck in conflict, and seeking revenge, will only keep you thinking about and tallying up – reliving – those hurts. The goal of mediation is to wrap up this part of your life, resolve and settle, so that you can move forward to your new and (hopefully) happier future, without the conflicts of the past. Let them go!
2. Neutral:
Moving from Litigation to Mediation
In mediation, we start from an underlying premise that we can find a place which will meet the needs of all members of the family. This is not always the case in litigation and often times the needs of the family get lost in a power struggle full of fear & defense.
Can high conflict couples mediate?
Six Things Your Litigator Doesn’t Want You To Know
Six Things Your Lawyer Doesn’t Want You To Know
OR – Why You Should Mediate Your Divorce
- Children
- Your children will never thank you for destroying their other parent
- Children always know the truth of their parents’ divorce. They will focus on it, and listen carefully to everything they hear, and piece together the story.
- The longer you are embroiled in conflict, the longer before your children can settle back into being normal kids – focusing on school, friends, music, soccer – and not on the conflict between the two people they love most in this world.
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