Services
Family law mediation for any issue
If it is a family law question, it can be mediated. Most families bring several issues at once, and you can work through them together or one at a time.
Separation agreements
Reach terms on every issue between you, ready for your lawyers to turn into a signed separation agreement.
Parenting plans
Decision-making responsibility, parenting time schedules, holidays, school, health care, travel and how you will talk to each other about the children.
Child support
Table amounts under the Child Support Guidelines, section 7 special expenses, income disclosure and annual updates.
Spousal support
Entitlement, amount and duration, using the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines as a reference point.
Property division
Equalization of net family property, pensions, investments, businesses and debts.
The matrimonial home
Whether one person buys out the other, when and how the home is sold, and who lives there in the meantime.
Changing an order or agreement
A change in income, a move or children getting older. Mediation can update support or parenting terms without a motion to change.
Relocation
When one parent wants to move with the children, mediation can work out a new schedule, travel and costs.
Grandparents and extended family
Contact between children and grandparents or other relatives, worked out with the parents.
Cohabitation and marriage contracts
Couples moving in together or marrying can mediate the terms of a domestic contract before a dispute ever starts.
Co-parenting disputes
Disagreements that come up after separation, such as schedule changes, extracurriculars or a new partner.
Anything else in family law
Not sure your issue fits? Call and ask. If mediation is not the right tool, Frank will say so.
What you leave with
When you reach agreement, Frank writes it up as a memorandum of understanding: a plain-language summary of everything you agreed. Each of you then takes it to your own lawyer for independent legal advice. Your lawyers can turn it into a separation agreement or consent order that is binding.
If you agree on some issues but not others, the memorandum records what you settled, which narrows what is left for a lawyer, an arbitrator or a judge.
Ready to talk it through?
Call or email Frank to ask a question or book a first session. You can contact him on your own; the other person does not need to call at the same time.