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Property and Financial Settlements

InterMEDIATE Dispute Management's Registered and Accredited Mediators assist parties to discuss, co-operate, negotiate and agree on how they wish to divide their joint property and financial assets and liabilities. Agreements can easily be made legally binding if desired.

A Guide Dog, or a Guard Dog? The advice of a good lawyer can be extemely helpful in understanding your rights and responsibilities. However, letters of demand, threats and one sided proposals, back and forth from lawyers waste money, create unnecessary delay and cause stress and acrimony between the parties. These letters prevent creative thinking that will help the parties to find workable solutions that they can each comfortably live with.  The cost of a court battle can easily add up to $50,000 per party.

Litigation exacerbates and inflames the dispute. It can destroy any remaining threads of a relationship needed for effective negotiation.

Litigation is expensive. Significant assets that are being fought over, can be wasted in the process, even sending families into poverty.

Property and financial mediation is highly cost effective, costing a fraction of that of litigation and court.
Property and Financial Mediation is a co-operative process. It will allow parties to generate and consider new options during their property and financial negotiations, leading to the crafting of an agreement that addresses their needs.

Mediation allows parties in dispute to develop a property and financial settlement that recognises each person's contribution, addresses each party's needs in a timely and cost effective manner, without the stress and expense caused by litigation.

Agreements reached by the parties are printed, checked, reality tested, future paced, discussed together, and signed at the end of the final joint session of mediation, enabling the parties to walk away with their signed agreements. These may be made legally binding if the parties wish. This outstanding service by InterMEDIATE Dispute Management is at no extra cost. We know of no other mediation services who offer this level of service.

Mediation can be arranged quickly. If you have children, a parenting plan can be crafted during the same session. Depending on the number and complexity of issues, the ability and willingness of each party to participate in the process, property and financial mediation AND a parenting plan may take as little as one session to complete.

We provide each party with a worksheet prior to the session, which allows them to consider their situation including amongst others:

 - contributions of each party from before the relationship started

 - contributions during their relationship - financial and non-financial

 - investments

 - superannuation

 - cash, savings, shares etc

 - real estate property

 - value of contents

 - heirlooms

 - personal effects

 - liabilities - personal and joint

 - wills and estates

 - taxes

 - business considerations

 - spousal maintenance

 - child maintenance

Where there is any uncertainty about current assets and liabilities, the advice of an independent accountant is highly recommended.



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