Child Custody and Visitation
How successfully you and your former spouse work together as parents after divorce will have a profound impact on the future lives of your children. Research has found that children of divorced parents who are respectful and cooperative in their relationship fare better even than those who live with two parents whose relationship is tense or hostile.
Perhaps in no other area is a positive outcome more important than the post-divorce nurture and care of your children. At A Fresh Start Mediation, your family comes first. That is why attorney Sue Brown limits her practice to constructive and positive methods of resolving family law disputes. She knows that mediation and the collaborative process can provide a foundation for strong parenting relationships and help provide a healthy and stable future for children.
If you are interested in reducing the negative impact of divorce on your children, contact Sue Brown to discuss how mediation and collaborative law can work to protect their best interests. Her experience as a lawyer and mediator is invaluable in the mediation process.
A Parenting Plan for Each Situation
Today, most divorced parents share joint legal custody, which means that they share major decision-making regarding education, medical care and other agreed items such as international travel and extracurricular activities.
Unless the children live solely with one parent, physical custody is also shared. How much time the children will spend with each parent, and what the schedule will be, are issues addressed during the mediation or collaborative process. Each family's situation is unique, and these alternatives to the traditional adversarial approach allow for creative, specifically tailored arrangements. They result in custody agreements that are structured enough to provide predictability, and flexible enough to adapt to children's changing needs.
Achieve Positive Custody and Visitation Solutions
Mediation or the collaborative divorce process can help develop positive custody solutions for parents who agree on most issues, and for those who agree on very little. Sue Brown is experienced with both kinds of situations and works with local child psychologists and parenting coordinators to provide maximum support the family in transition.
Having raised her son as a single parent, Sue takes seriously the impact of divorce on children. If you would like to discuss protecting the best interests of your children through a divorce transition, call Sue 888-855-8063, or send an e-mail to A Fresh Start Mediation.
Located in Chapel Hill, A Fresh Start Mediation serves clients in The Triangle and elsewhere in North Carolina.
