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If you don’t want to end up in court, you may be looking at divorce mediation. Since we live in a technical age, more and more people turn to an online mediator instead of meeting up with one in person. You may be wondering if you should use an online mediator. Here are some benefits that you may find when you use an online mediator.

Online mediation is fast. Most people are able to schedule an online mediation appointment within a week. At the first meeting, a mediator will help you decide what you need to split up so you can start figuring out how you want to do so.

Mediation costs a lot less than litigation. Though you will spend some money on lawyers and possibly a mediator, it can cost a lot more to go through court. In fact, many people say that getting divorced can cost around ten thousand dollars (or even more), depending on how long you fight it out in court.

Mediation is a lot better for your relationship than battling it out in court. If you have children, you are going to be in your spouse’s life for the rest of yours. Nasty divorces can make raising children together very hard. If you go through mediation, you are going to learn how to compromise with your spouse, and you can use these skills throughout the rest of your parenting life together.

You don’t have to be in the same room (or even location) as your spouse. Online mediation often works best because you don’t have to be near your spouse as you decide how you want to divide up your possessions. You can be in separate lawyer’s office, different homes, or any location where you can have privacy and an internet connection.

If you are trying to decide whether or not you want to try online mediation, you definitely should. It is a lot cheaper than going to court, plus you can salvage some of your relationships by learning how to work together and compromise.

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Divorces are some of the most stressful times any person can go through, as there is a mountain of emotional, familial, and legal issues both persons will have to go through. Why should you go through all those hurdles and hoops to detach yourself from the person you can no longer be with?

Online mediation is a relatively recent innovation in the unfortunate business of divorce and it uses modern tools and techniques to get a clean break in marriages that just aren’t working out. Online mediation isn’t all that different from in-person mediation, but there are differences between the two that you ought to consider before making a choice between them.

The Pros of Online Mediation

• Scheduling is much easier.
  • By the virtue of having an online mediator, you, your partner, and the online mediator can more easily coordinate your schedules so that an online meeting can be set up without having to worry about driving here or there or missing out on your child’s recital.
• It’s less confrontational.
  • Because online mediation happens on the internet, you can be as far away from your partner as you wish. This distance can facilitate a less confrontational environment for you and your partner. In addition to that, because you’d be hosting the mediation online, you may feel more relaxed talking to or about your partner than if they were in the same room as you are.

The Cons of Online Mediation

• It’s not a traditional meeting.
  • Some folks will have a harder time adjusting to a virtual mediator than they would with one they can talk to face-to-face. If they can’t communicate with a virtual mediator as well as they would with a mediator in-person, than the quality of their communications and the result of the mediation will be likely be worse.
• Tech Requirements
  • Because online mediation happens online, both partners need a strong and stable internet connection to begin with. If that isn’t available to either partners, than online mediation is not going to work out as well as in-person mediation would.

There are of course other pros and cons to online mediation, but they are no different than what you’d get from an in-person meeting with a mediator. If online mediation sounds like what you need, then please contact us today so we can work together today.