Family
Mediation
Elder and Adult Sibling Mediation
Navigating the Complexity of Family Relationships
Have you and family members entered into dispute or reached a stalemate on handling critical situations, even legal matters? Family matters are often sensitive and rife with emotion. Difficulties often stem from life transitions of an elder family member, the division of an estate, management of a family asset, or a lingering dispute between adult siblings. Mediation can help avoid further conflict, address bruised relationships and enable the family to problem solve.
Family Mediation Categories
Family Mediation navigates the complex and often delicate relations between family members of the same or a different generation. It generally includes the following:
- Legacy Mediation: Decisions related to estate plans; decisions regarding co-owned property or assets left to descendants. For example, a vacation cottage left to children and future generations.
- Elder Mediation or Senior Mediation: Typically refers to family mediation related to planning older adult living arrangements, driving or life care arrangements.
- Adult Sibling Mediation: This could be for any conflict between adult siblings such as how to care for parents, estate property management disagreements or disputes over inheritance.
- Family Business Mediation: Could take place be between parents and children who jointly own the company, just siblings that own the company or family members and non-family employees of the business.
- Marital Mediation: Includes divorce, pre-nuptial, post nuptial or ongoing marital disputes, and be used for married or unmarried domestic couples. Marital Mediation may also include a parenting plan for divorced or divorcing couples. Our Divorce & Post-Divorce Mediation page offers specific information for couples seeking mediation to peacefully and equitably end their marriage.
A Safe and Welcoming Place for All
We welcome members of the LGBTQ community and people of all backgrounds to our practice. We believe that families come in many different sizes, shapes and combinations under the rainbow, and that each is a special mosaic.