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When two parties in a divorce cannot come to agreements on matters involved in their separation, such as property allotment, asset distribution, child custody, etc., this is referred to as a “contested divorce”. On the contrary, when two parties in a divorce can come to an agreement on all matters involved in their divorce, this is referred to as an “uncontested divorce”. It’s not often we see entirely uncontested divorces. They’re rare, but we have handled them. Couples who are uncontested on matters related to their divorce usually come to a divorce settlement agreement much faster. However, just because they’re able to quickly come to an agreement does not mean it’s perfect. This is where your Nassau County Divorce Mediator can step in and help.

A divorce settlement agreement should encompass contingencies for all potential circumstances the future may hold. These contingencies may range from scenarios involving finances to child custody and visitation. At Nassau County Divorce Mediation Center, we’re highly-experienced at guiding couples with their divorce settlement agreements, ensuring that they do encompass potential future circumstances. Our main goal is ensuring that our clients are fully comfortable with their divorce settlement agreement before submitting it to the court.

A lot of parents who choose to mediate their divorce understand that joint custody may be in the best interest of their children. But coming up with a parenting plan may be difficult for them. Your Nassau County Divorce Mediator will guide you and your partner in devising a parenting plan that meets your children’s best interests. After a divorce settlement agreement is filed with the court, it is binding. But one benefit of Divorce Mediation is that decisions are made cooperatively. Many couples are able to cooperatively communicate after Divorce Mediation and be flexible with their parenting plan in order to meet their children’s best interests.

Parenting plans should take into account:

• The ability for each parent to meet their children’s needs
• The physical/mental health of each parent
• The relationship the children have with members of each parent’s family
• Which parent acted as primary caregiver to the children (feeding them, taking them to and from school, medical appointments, etc.)
• Each parent’s schedules and how that will factor into the time they can spend with their children
• How each parent will handle the parenting plan – if they will be flexible in certain situations for their children’s best interest

Spousal support, when sought, can be a highly-contested issue, especially if there is resentment between both parties. Your Nassau County Divorce Mediator can help facilitate cooperative conversation between both parties regarding spousal support in order to help bring about an understanding of why it may or may not be necessary. If sought, your mediator will inform both parties on the Maintenance Guideline laws, which state that each spouse should have a standard of living that is “not overly disproportionate to that which they enjoyed during their marriage.” After your mediator informs you on how courts handle spousal support, you and your partner can then make your own decisions on spousal support.

In a mediated divorce, child support works much like spousal support. It can either be waived or sought. But many parents will agree that their children’s wellbeing is of the utmost importance and that child support is necessary. Your Nassau County Divorce Mediator will inform you on how a court would handle the matter of child support based on the Child Support Standards Act. After you have a full understanding of how Child Support would be handled by a judge, you and your soon-to-be ex-spouse can come to your own agreement on how you will handle child support.