Family Mediation solicitors enables couples to develop their own answers to the dilemmas of separation. The mediator helps with the process but never imposes solutions.
Collaborative family law solicitors enable separating couples to come up with their own, tailored, solutions. It centres on negotiation through specially trained collaborative lawyers. Other professionals (therapists, accountants, etc) can be brought in to help.
Even if family mediation or collaborative family law do not provide complete answers, they can help define the issues. When they do work, the resulting solutions tend to last, precisely because they suit the people involved and have not been imposed from "outside", by a court. A mediated or collaborative settlement can be used to put together a "consent order" to finalise the legal aspects of a separation.
