Contact Us & FAQ

Mediation is voluntary, confidential and impartial. You and your ex-partner meet with a trained family mediator to discuss your post-separation financial arrangements and arrangements for any children. It is a service that aims to reduce stress and conflict and is provided as an alternative to solicitors and going to the family court. It is a quicker and more cost-effective route to resolving these issues.

We work to improve communication, help you to feel more in control and to better understand the legal process. It is an opportunity to explore the options for your children and how financial needs can be met and ultimately agree on what the future will look like.

Once all issues have been addressed, the mediator will help you to make proposals to resolve each issue. Through the impartial process of mediation, the goal is to have a set of agreed proposals. The mediator will then provide each of you with a confidential summary of these proposals and this can be drafted into an agreed consent order for the court. The proposals are confidential and cannot be used in court without everyone agreeing. The proposals are not legally binding until they have been approved by the court, which can be done without attending.

Most individuals will require some legal advice during the process of mediation. The mediator can provide legal information but is not able to advise either of you as they are impartial. The number of hours of work for a solicitor will be greatly reduced by using mediation.

We charge £125 for a one hour MIAM. Joint sessions are charged at £140 per hour, per person and each session is approximately 1.5 hours. It is difficult to predict how many sessions will be needed to reach agreed proposals, but it is typically between 3 and 5. Some work will need to be undertaken between joint sessions and this is charged at £100 per hour, per person.

The Family Mediation Solution is a private mediation practice and does not offer mediation funded by legal aid. There is an eligibility calculator for legal aid on the gov.uk website https://www.gov.uk/check-legal-aid. You can also search the Family Mediation Council for a list of mediators who do offer legally aid funded mediation https://www.familymediationcouncil.org.uk/find-local-mediator/