Tennessee Family Law Questions & Answers

Mediation is a settlement process to help you and your spouse try and resolve the issues involved in your divorce case.  The issues mediated can include child custody and parenting time issues if children are involved, alimony and property division, including who will receive what property and who will be responsible for which bills.  Mediation is an informal process usually conducted around a conference room table.  It is in a casual setting. The mediator is not a judge and does not make a decision or impose his or her will on the parties but attempts to find a solution to the dispute.  At the mediation session, each person involved in the dispute presents a summary of his or her point of view.  If you have an attorney, he or she will usually go with you to the mediation session.  The mediator will usually meet with everyone together at the beginning and then meet individually with each side.  This offers participants the opportunity to communicate to the mediator their real interests in the dispute as well