Is there an average or standard type of costing?
A. Experience indicates that an average mediation covering comprehensive issues or wide subject matter (parenting, financial, support arrangements, matrimonial home possession/property and property settlement separation arrangements) to average 5 hours (add a further 1 hour for drafting and ½ hour for read through of Memorandum of Agreement). Average collaborative law cases estimate 5-10 hours. Average cooperative lawyering 7-12 hours. Estimates are statistically variable due to particular involvement by other lawyers. In any event, mediation and collaborative law are by nature more effective due to specific communication dynamics inherent in those processes. As well, this service delivery excludes participation by non-specializing (i.e. lacking experience and skills capacity in interest-based negotiation) lawyers.
