Mediation
Co-Parenting for Your Kids offers a fixed fee mediation service.
** We have found that generally, families need 4 hours to mediate plus some time at the end of mediation to write up and sign any agreement that has been reached.
The last part of the session is also spent ‘winding down’ by privately talking about your mediation experience. Mediating can be draining and taking some time at the conclusion of the session to talk with your FDRP, is often beneficial.
Of course, longer and shorter mediation is available and can be discussed at the intake meeting.
Outcomes that are mutually agreed upon and signed are called Parenting Plans. If you wish to formalise a Parenting Plan into a Consent Order, we can provide you with information about how to go about doing this. We can support you with the Do-It-Yourself application available from the Family Court website (the fee is $360 per person).
The 4-hour fixed fee option is a child-focused mediation.
Child inclusive and property settlement mediation is also available and may work within the 4-hour fixed model. This will be discussed and decided upon at the Intake meeting. Should lawyer-assisted mediation be required, the fees remain the same.
The mediation fee is paid in two installments. The first amount ($447.50) is paid when the mediation date is booked and the balance ($447.50) is due the last weekday before mediation.
Fee for 4 hours of mediation – $895 per person. Fees are charged per parent, which means unless otherwise agreed, each parent is charged $895 for 4 hours of child-focused mediation.
Check our Fee Schedules here.
