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Family mediation client talks about her experiences of mediation

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Continuing on the theme of Financial Sense, the Family Mediators Association have today published a short video and blog post of a client talking about her experience of going through mediation on financial and children matters.

The video is short but effective at one minute and twenty seconds. Suzy's talks a little about the mediation process in general terms, about her case and about the impact mediation had on her and her family. And, although not all cases will include all the elements that Suzy describes i.e. capital assets, maintenance and children, the real value of this video is to hear what benefits Suzy derived from the process.

Support for making full financial disclosure

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Most clients find the process of making full financial disclosure time consuming. Many also find it difficult as they may not have access to documents or they may not be used to dealing with finances. However, it is a pre-requisite to being able to enter into meaningful discussion about a settlement and being able to reality test options.

Advice Now have produced this really useful and straight forward video to help people fill in Form E, the court form used for making full financial disclosure. However, it may also be useful for mediation clients who may be struggling to fill in their disclosure forms, whether this is the Form E or a mediation adapted version.

Although, as mediators, we are always happy to support our clients in this process, the more you can do yourself in preparation for a session the better, as it will move the process on more quickly, saving you both time and money.