Finding Peace After Conflict

I’m a Domestic Relations Mediator registered with the courts in Indiana. When people have children together and split up, regardless if they were married, there are issues of custody, parenting time, and child support to be decided.

Rather than fighting it out as adversaries, they can use the process of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to reach agreement through mediation about custody, parenting time of their children, and child support; if they were married, the divorce can be settled using this process as well.

The more they agree to in mediation, the more control they have. When it goes to court, someone else decides for them. They have no control over the outcome. More control is better.

I help them reach agreement, write it up, and submit it. The courts review it, and it generally becomes a court order. Even partial agreement on some issues is better than none at all.

I’m not an attorney. I’m a counselor and a mediator. There’s a place for both. The courts have given me authority in these cases because many decisions are family issues, not legal ones.

Too many couples couldn’t find peace when they were together, but they can’t find it after they split either! Legal cases create sides. Mediation creates peace. Peace feeds security, confidence, and self-esteem in children. Conflict and chaos feeds the opposite.

Find peace.