Guiding Families Towards Harmony: The Crucial Roles of Family Mediators in Australia Family dynamics can be complex, and conflicts often arise that can strain relationships. In Australia, mediators play a pivotal role in helping families navigate through these challenges by facilitating open communication, finding common ground, and promoting constructive solutions. In this blog, we…
Lies and Misinformation. What to do? It’s really easy when you hear your children parroting their other parent’s twisted truth or lies to defend yourself against accusations and set the record straight. Research shows that the one thing children, adolescents and young people dislike the most about their divorced situation is when they’re put in…
Parenting Plan or Consent Order? When families come to mediation, it’s usually because there’s issues they haven’t been able to agree on and they need support to end the arguing and make things different. But what should they DO with those agreements? Is a parenting plan enough to protect them? Is it the right time…
How much does not going to mediation cost? Just about every time someone contacts me for mediation, their first question is “how much will it cost?”. Today, I was looking over my website and the page all about “how much it costs”. The header image is of a little girl looking up at her…
What is a Contravention Application? Something I’m often asked, is “how do CONTRAVENTION Applications work?”. The families I support are often in the midst of arguments, tantrums, stand-off’s and sometimes parental alienation. Many families see this co-parenting stuff as a high stakes game. It’s all about competing, comparison, owndership, one-up-manship, tit-for-tat and pick-up-your-game. Some…
So you want to take your Ex to Court? We all know that going to court is hard. Whether it’s a family matter or a commercial matter, it’s hard. It’s emotionally draining, financially expensive and takes a long time. When it’s a family matter, there’s another consideration too though – the toll it takes on…