I will always advise that it is critical clients produce all the financial disclosure information that is agreed at the mediation session as this is the information which will help you to reach a viable and realistic settlement proposal.
In practice, a divorce judge would order you to produce the same information so that they could make a decision for you so you would eventually have to produce these documents if you do not reach private agreement in family mediation.
In mediation, you stay in charge of the topics of discussion, you decide the order of priority of agenda items and decide the settlement yourselves, the mediator only helps facilitate constructive discussions to help you reach your own separation agreement. Find out what is the best way to secure a fair share of the assets of the marriage in our next blog…