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NAVIGATING THE COMPLEXITY OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
Have you and family members entered into dispute or reached a stalemate on handling critical situations, even legal matters? Family matters are often sensitive and rife with emotion. Difficulties often stem from life transitions of an elder family member, the division of an estate, management of a family asset, or a lingering dispute between adult siblings. Mediation can help avoid further conflict, address bruised relationships and enable the family to problem solve.
Family Mediation navigates the complex and often delicate relations between family members of the same or a different generation. It generally includes the following:
Decisions related to estate plans; decisions regarding co-owned property or assets left to descendants. For example, a vacation cottage left to children and future generations.
Typically refers to family mediation related to planning older adult living arrangements, driving or life care arrangements.
This could be for any conflict between adult siblings such as how to care for parents, estate property management disagreements or disputes over inheritance.
Could take place be between parents and children who jointly own the company, just siblings that own the company or family members and non-family employees of the business.
Includes divorce, pre-nuptial, post nuptial or ongoing marital disputes, and be used for married or unmarried domestic couples. Marital Mediation may also include a parenting plan for divorced or divorcing couples. Our Divorce & Post-Divorce Mediation page offers specific information for couples seeking mediation to peacefully and equitably end their marriage.
We welcome members of the LGBTQ community and people of all backgrounds to our practice. We believe that families come in many different sizes, shapes and combinations under the rainbow, and that each is a special mosaic.
Once a family member or friend engages Mediation Partners New England, the mediator will call each family member to discuss the situation and their perspective.
When you contact Mediation Partners New England, we can explore how to best approach your siblings. Sometimes an invite by phone from you and a follow up conversation with me is appropriate. If not, a letter can be sent introducing the mediator and then we follow up with a phone call.
The next step is to send a note of interest to Mediation Partners New England. CLICK HERE to complete contact information and someone will get back to you within two days. If you’d prefer, you can call at 617-799-8706 to speak to Susan directly.
Are you and another party struggling with a conflict? We offer 30 minutes of initial consultation free by telephone or video conference.
The initial consultation will provide an overview of my mediation services, approach and process. A brief description of the circumstances will be explored.