How Does Mediation Differ From Litigation in Divorce? – AttorneyBernie.Com

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00:00:04: A lot of people want to do mediation because it sounds so much more civil and so much more woke in a way if you don’t mind me using that phrase when people find that their marriages are falling apart they want to try to find a civil way of uh reaching a conclusion mediation is a very good way to go because with mediation you own the result but mediation itself is fraught with issues that come up and that is that if you just do mediation sometimes you don’t know what your legal rights are your mediator

00:00:38: Cannot advise you as to what your med what your rights are and the other person who you’re mediating with may be in control of all the information so the best way to do mediation is to have your own lawyer anyway and have that lawyer advise you through the process and only once all the issues have been disclosed everything’s on the table everybody knows what the value is and everybody knows how a court is likely to dispose of an issue if they were to go to court so yes mediation is favored but it needs

00:01:13: To be professionally approached