Divorce is not just a legal process.
Divorce is a transition that deeply affects you, your children, and your family emotionally, financially, and legally.
After your decision to divorce, your most important decisions are your choice of process and your choice of professionals.
Both Mediation and Collaborative Divorce processes are for clients who want to create agreements respectfully and avoid court and adversarial representation. While this website focuses on Mediation, our sister sites, Collaborative Practice East Bay and Collaborative Practice Golden Gate focus on Collaborative Divorce.
The professionals on this site are trained in both Mediation and Collaborative Divorce and can provide guidance so you can choose the best fit for your family’s needs. Either option can result in a productive and positive process.
Why Mediation?
You and your spouse or partner determine the outcome, facilitated by one or more professional neutrals. Some benefits of Mediation include:
- When agreements are made together, they are more likely to be kept
- You have the ability to develop creative solutions tailored to your situation
- Mediation is typically the shortest and least expensive process
- The mediation process promotes the preservation of the parenting, friendship, business, and family relationships
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Find A Professional
Find skilled and compassionate professionals to help you manage the many aspects of divorce—the legal issues, the emotional turmoil, the concerns for children and the financial and property questions. Click on “Find a Professional” to learn about our professionals on your own, or click on “Help Me Start” to learn how a Navigator (or point person) can help you get started.
Divorce Options® Workshops
.A FREE community service open to those who want to learn more about the process of divorce. Divorce Options® is a two to three-hour Zoom electronic workshop offered by volunteer professionals.
Each month an attorney, a mental health professional, and a financial professional provide unbiased information about self-representation, mediation, Collaborative Divorce, and litigated divorce along with information about the process from their respective professions.
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