When couples who are ready to divorce are looking for a Divorce Mediator, they often believe that costs relate directly to the hourly rate of mediators. But this isn’t necessarily true. Many other factors weigh heavily into the costs of Divorce Mediation. In truth, what determines the cost of your Divorce Mediation is your mediator’s skill level, the services they can provide, and how thorough they are throughout the process.

Your Mediator’s Skill Level

It’s important to understand that even with training, an average person who has decided to become a mediator might not have the level of experience you and your spouse require for a successful divorce mediation. It’s not a regulated profession in the United States, either. The industry is booming and at the same time flooded with inexperienced mediators. So, what should you look for in an experienced Divorce Mediator?

• A proven and reliable ability to guide two opposing parties through complex negotiations that turn into settlements while remaining entirely neutral
• A creative ability to offer several settlement options for the opposing parties to discuss
• An understanding of the complex financial matters that surround divorce
• A personable, comprehensive understanding of the contested issues a divorcing couple is experiencing and how their decisions may impact their futures

Our Suffolk County Divorce Mediators have successfully handled several hundreds of divorce cases. Our mediators have a keen ability to contrive several settlement options couples may not have considered and a profound understanding on the complicated financial matters that surround divorce. They also strive to make sure clients have an in-depth understanding of how their decisions will impact their future.

Mental Health Professionals As Divorce Mediators

Although many Mental Health Professionals who are Divorce Mediators are good at understanding both party’s feelings and frustrations (and are likely good at diffusing tension), they may not be very handy when it comes to settling disputes over money and property allotment. They may have trained for it, but they likely spend most of their days working their primary profession. Since being a Mental Health Professional requires continuing education, they’re likely not spending much time mediating divorces. Therefore, they may not be up-to-date with recent changes in divorce or mediation. And if they aren’t good with money, they may need to bring in CPA’s, financial advisors and divorce financial analysts to mediation sessions – which is all an extra cost for clients.

Why Suffolk County Divorce Mediation Service Is So Cost-Effective

Our Divorce Mediators have proven themselves skilled at aiding couples who contest on divorce-related issues come to reasonable divorce agreements. We guide clients through in-depth and many times complicated negotiations, such as custodial rights, child support/alimony, property allotment, etc. We make sure to discuss all topics of divorce with our clients and come up with creative options they may not have considered prior to mediation. We also make sure that agreements made are in the best interests of clients and their futures, discussing future circumstances that could arise and ways his clients can manage them. Some Suffolk County Divorce Mediators only draft basic agreements. You would then need to pay for an attorney to rewrite your agreement for the court, and this could cost up to $2,500 to $3,500. Since our mediators are attorneys, we draft final agreements for successful mediations and can file them with the court, saving our clients thousands.

The mediators at Suffolk County Divorce Mediation Service are extremely skilled and follow an efficient, time & cost-effective process. If you are considering divorce mediation, contact us for a free consultation today.