How important is the divorce mediators professional background?
Divorce is a legal, financial and emotional process. Attorneys are very fact and goal oriented, so they are trained to help parties clarify goals, identify options, consider consequences, and create a final agreement. Accountants answer financial and tax questions. Therapists help the parties address emotional issues and keep those issues from undermining the mediation process. Therapists also help the parties learn to cooperate as parents after the divorce is finalized. Therefore, as an attorney, an accountant and a marriage and family therapist, I am ideally prepared to help both of you make the journey from anger to acceptance, argument to agreement.
