Benefits of Divorce Mediation for Young Couples

Certainly when you first got married, you never thought in a few short years you would find yourself contemplating divorce. Now that you find yourself in this most unfortunate place, we’re glad to see you’ve taken the first step towards re-defining your future by considering divorce mediation as the means to settle your divorce. For NJ couples who have only been married for a short while, the divorce process doesn’t have to be difficult and mediation makes it easy to get separated quickly, efficiently and for significantly less money than your traditional attorney-driven divorce.

Benefits of divorce mediation for young couples include:

• Significant Cost Savings – when you’re first starting out, chances are you don’t have a ton of money to spend on much of anything, let alone legal fees to handle your divorce. But for the cost of what one of you would pay an attorney in retainer fees alone, you could both hire a NJ divorce mediator such as myself and successfully resolve all of the issues related to your divorce. The average mediated divorce at Equitable Mediation Services for young couples without children can cost as little as $2,500 with no “use it or lose it” retainer and will provide you both with the exact same result as if you each went and hired attorneys and fought it out.
• Takes Much Less Time – since there’s not a lot to fight over, we can usually get through mediation in one or two sessions allowing you to both move on with your lives in a month instead of a year.
• You Remain In Control – you don’t need someone telling you what to do or what your settlement should look like – those are decisions best left up to you and your spouse. With mediation you both make all of the decisions on the issues surrounding your divorce and create a settlement that works for both of you. No one will tell you what to do or try and get you to agree to something you’re not comfortable with.

We know that once you learn more about divorce mediation and benefits of mediation for young couples you’ll agree that it truly is the smarter way to divorce. If you have any questions about mediation and how divorce mediation can benefit you, please contact us to set up a consultation for you and your spouse in one of our many convenient Northern or Central New Jersey locations where we will discuss the specifics of your case and help you understand the potential options and solutions that lie ahead for each of you.