For many, the start of a new year brings reflection of the past year, and the setting of goals for the upcoming year. Setting personal finance goals are among the most common. However, in order to set appropriate financial goals, it helps to assess your current financial situation. When it comes to personal finances, have you ever wondered how you stack up to everyone else?
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When a couple is facing divorce, the conventional process is for each individual to hire a lawyer and litigate. However, due to cost and adversarial nature of litigation, more couples are turning to mediation to settle their divorce. As a result, the number of divorce mediation practices outside the legal community has been rising. Not all divorce mediators are equal. So, how do you know you are choosing a qualified divorce mediator?
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Litigation is the conventional method of divorce resolution. Couples seeking divorce are losing confidence in this method. This is because litigation is expensive, adversarial, and unable to cope with conflict. People cannot justify the legal costs and impairment of their wealth. People simply do not trust that a legal separation will be fair. While no one wants to think about separation and divorce, it is encouraging to know that there is an alternative to litigation and its pitfalls: divorce mediation.
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