A: In its simplest terms, it is a process to help the two of you address and successfully resolve the principal problem that you now find yourselves faced with, namely, how each of you (and your children) are going to be able to manage financially following your separation and divorce? However, unlike an adversarial divorce proceeding, it will not commit you to a long, bitter and costly struggle. Nor will it make adversaries of you, which will be of no help at all. Rather, it will provide you with a mediator who, acting as a neutral third party, will help the two of you address all of the questions concerning the custody and care of your children, the division of your assets, support, and the many other issues that
should properly be resolved in your ultimate agreement. Just as importantly, its aim will be to leave you with an agreement that both of you feel you can live with, not an agreement that only meets the needs of one of you, as is so often the case when couples turn to the winner take world of adversarial divorce proceedings.