CHOOSING THE RIGHT MEDIATOR
If you need a mediator to assist in resolving a dispute, here are some quick tips to help you.
- The dispute may involve a conflict about property, business, or a family issue.
- Mediation is a staged process and the actual subject matter may vary.
- The mediator does not represent any of the parties and must always remain neutral and independent.
- It is helpful if the mediator is familiar with the subject matter of the dispute.
- Mediation is a common sense based, staged process that looks for the facts, determines the parties needs [ie. financial and psychological] and calculates those needs that the parties share.
- Once this is done, the mediator helps the parties search for practical, common sense solutions.
- Once the parties buy in to these ‘workable solutions’, the mediator prepares a draft agreement.
- Once this is signed, the process ends.
- It is then up to the parties to complete their end of the deal.
- By negotiating their own deal, they avoid continuing conflict and expense and have the satisfaction of knowing that they have resolved their problem without any one else imposing a solution on them.