Family Mediation Services are charged on an hourly basis which is payable at each session and working outside formal sessions on behalf of the parties to achieve the desired goals. There is no financial contract to sign. There is no retained fee. Additional fees may be charged by outside consultants, subject to approval of both parties, to bring about resolution of an issue.

Why is it cheaper?

Mediation is cheaper because it's faster and more direct. Most people come to mediation willing to work on the issues and to learn how to communicate better. That willingness translates into a less expensive divorce because resolving a case is almost always cheaper than taking it to trial. Rather than speaking through lawyers, you speak with each other (with the mediator's help, of course) about your goals and issues. Even if lawyers are involved with your mediation, they aren't spending hours and hours in court waiting for the judge to be free to hear your trial or billing for endless back-and-forth phone calls about the smallest details of your case. Consequently, their fees are typically much lower than in a case which is brought to court to litigate.

Our fees are lower than most divorce lawyers. On average, clients resolve their cases with our help in 3 to 15 hours.