Mediation allows for creative solutions and provides certainty and finality while meeting the particular needs of your family.

The advantages to mediation:

• No court battles
• More control over the negotiation process
• More responsive and accommodating to the uniqueness of your family
• Time to be creative
• Cost effective

Selecting mediation is especially important if children are involved. Mediation allows you and your spouse to effectively and efficiently work through the financial and legal issues, such as child custody, parenting time, child support, and the many other important issues that are part of a written parenting plan, without destroying the parental relationships that will continue long after the marriage has ended.

As your Mediator, Elizabeth Hill, will help you and your spouse reach an agreement that you can accept and embrace as your own. The mediation process is voluntary and confidential.

During face-to-face meetings, she will assist you and your spouse in generating different options for resolution that are tailored to your family, including but not limited to these areas:

• Division of marital assets and property (cars, houses, investments, retirement)
• Allocation of debt and other financial obligations
• Parenting time
• Child support
• Alimony or spousal support

There is nothing easy about going through a divorce for either you, your spouse, or your children. However, mediation can be less overwhelming and less expensive than a traditional divorce. Her goal as you mediator is to understand both of you and help you understand each other and your goals and interest for yourself and your children.

Once you have reached an agreement on all issues involved in your divorce. She can prepare your formal written agreements to submit to the court to obtain a Decree of Divorce or Judgement of Dissolution of Marriage.

For nearly 30 years Elizabeth Hill's practice in Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri serving the Northland counties of Clay and Platte has focused exclusively on family law. The Hill Law Firm is a proud to be a divorce and family law mediator helping couples become empowered decision-makers.

To schedule a consultation or obtain more information about your divorce options such as, mediation, collaborative mediation or collaborative divorce, you may contact her office by completing the form on the contact page or by calling 913-381-1500.