Wimbledon Family Mediation - family mediation specialists in Wimbledon, Streatham, Croydon and Morden

Wimbledon Family Mediation services an area in South-West London that includes Wimbledon (two centres), Streatham, Croydon and Morden.

We are able to advise on, and grant legal aid where necessary and have a high success rate of mutually acceptable outcomes.

What is mediation?
Family Mediation is a process in which an impartial third person, the mediator, facilitates those involved in family breakdown to make arrangements following a separation or a divorce or the breakdown of same sex relationships and relationships involving the wider family. The process is managed by the mediator but the issues are those of the clients.

The couples or other family members involved in a family breakdown are helped to explore the issues and concerns, and they reach their own joint decisions.

Issues generally centre on arrangements for divorce or separation, children, finance and property but they can involve communication and relationship problems.

Mediation can be started before a couple separate, during a divorce and proceedings in relation to children and financial issues and after any court order has been made. Mediation can involve members of a family other than a couple and even former partners may be involved.

Those who have been involved in the mediation process can always come back at any time should any new problem need attention.

When a mediation process is concluded, it is hoped that the clients will have reached an understanding about how they want to resolve their issues. The mediators will put this understanding into a document and, if the issues involve finance, they will prepare documents setting out the clients' full financial circumstances.

Clients are both encouraged to get legal advice at appropriate points during the mediation process.

When mediation is successfully resolved, the clients decide, with the help of any legal advisors who are consulted, what the next steps may be.

Generally these are the options:

To take the matter no further;
To instruct solicitors to draw up a legally binding agreement;
To instruct solicitors to draw up the necessary papers so that a judge can be invited to make a consent order of the court.

For instant help and advice, ring 07703 321 805 or email info@wimbledonfamilymediation.co.uk.