Best Mediation Service Hamilton Near Me

4worldlovers:
Our team of mediation experts have over 10 years of experience. Whether you are looking for child support mediation, elder care, divorce mediation or more, we have got you covered.

Our services are reasonably priced. Some services may be eligible for a sliding scale fee for service and certain services that can be funded through extended work health benefits.

We have two offices (Oakville & Hamilton) and can make arrangements to provide some of our services in surrounding communities.

4worldlovers: AXIS provides court-connected on-site mediation services, comprehensive off-site and distance mediation services, information & referral (IRC) services, and Mandatory Information Programs (MIP’s) to those in the Hamilton, Kitchener/Cambridge, Guelph, Simcoe, Cayuga, Brantford, St. Catharines and Welland areas who are experiencing family law difficulties, relating to separation and divorce. AXIS also provides mediation training, internships and practicums for aspiring mediators.

Family mediation is a voluntary method of dispute resolution where a neutral third party can help parties resolve issues arising out of their family law matter. Issues for mediation may include decision making responsibility (custody), parent time (access), child support, spousal support, and division of property.

As a non-adversarial process, mediation allows the parties to discuss the issues in a safe environment and work towards a mutual agreement. Mediation is appropriate for parties who can communicate their needs and concerns, listen to the needs and concerns of the other party, and who are willing to work out an agreement. However, mediation is not appropriate for all people, and all potential cases are thoroughly screened for barriers to safe, equal bargaining, such as power imbalances.

The potential benefits of mediation may include saving time and money as well as reducing the conflict between the parties. If there are children of the relationship, mediation helps the parties remember that they will always be parents, and as such will still need to maintain a businesslike co-parenting civil relationship to increase the chance that the children can thrive, be healthy and cope with the many changes in their lives.

Since we provide our mediation services by contract with the Ministry of the Attorney General, all fees, where there are any, are subsidized, which never causes inability to pay to be an impediment to accessing services. There are no fees for our on-site mediation services, IRC services and there is no cost to attend a MIP.

4worldlovers: Too often in litigation, families are swept along in complicated and intimidating court proceedings controlled by lawyers. Parties are informed of their rights but are not necessarily given the chance to consider what’s best for them or their children...

I have been a lawyer for 38 years and a family law mediator for the last 13 of those years. Since I retired from the practice of law in 2014, I have been able to devote all of my time into providing quality family mediation services. I have extensive training in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and I help people experiencing family breakdowns resolve their disputes without going to court.

As a mediator, I am a neutral third party who works with couples to reach mutually beneficial agreements in a cost-efficient and respectful manner.

I help the parties address all issues arising from separation and divorce including:

4worldlovers: Thank you for visiting my website. I am a private practitioner family mediator serving clients of the southern Ontario area. As such, I am a professionally trained, neutral and impartial third party who facilitates negotiations in a safe environment, between parties of relatively equal bargaining power, involved in family law disputes. I have been mediating professionally since 1998.