PARENTING PLAN This parenting plan and questions are taken from the Help and Support for Separated Families website but there are a few good parenting templates available such as the one provided by CAFCASS. We are the parents of: child’s name
When it comes to child maintenance there are two questions most parents want an answers to; How much do I need to pay? – The payer How much will I receive? – The recipient The new CMS (Child Maintenance Service)
Mediation Information and Assessment Meeting (‘MIAM’) We hope that you will find the following information helpful, concerning your first information and assessment meeting with the mediator. Please read this in conjunction with watching our mediation video series on our YouTube
Our ‘short term self’ is often in competition with our ‘long term self’ especially when it comes to what we perceive as our needs and interests and how we communicate these in mediation. What do I mean by this? Our
There are many ways to manage controlling behaviour but the key, as always, is to first assess the type of controlling behaviour you are seeing and experiencing, before deciding how to respond; What I call the ‘lense and lever’ approach,
You are very good friends with Bill and Sheila both of whom you have known for years. You have not seen them for about 6 months. You happen to be speaking to Pete who knows Bill and he tells you,
You have the POWER ” There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful STATES (which can be changed) ” NLP principle People often want to tell me in their pre-mediation assessment meetings how unreasonable they feel their partner is being; So000
Why is it that, apparently less than a quarter of cases in which a MIAM has taken place, proceed to mediation? This certainly not my experience or the experience of the Compass Resolution mediators. In fact, it is the reverse,
Feeling manipulated can make you feel very uneasy. Why is that? Well, the uneasiness often stems from feeling that you are being encouraged to engage in doing something ‘immoral’ and against ‘ your better judgement’ such as cheating. In society,
How can two people have such different stories to tell? She says to me;“I don’t understand what’s happened. I don’t recognise him any more. He has changed so much” He says; “I couldn’t go on living like this. For me,
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