All Issues Mediation

All Issues Mediation (AIM) works in exactly the same way as child focused mediation with the exception that it covers everything - children, property and assets, liabilities, maintenance, etc - arising from the break up of your relationship.

Trained mediators will meet with you for a series of sessions in which you will be helped to make a list of all the matters you wish to consider, collect the necessary information, discuss options and choices, negotiate and reach decisions that are acceptable to you both.

The number of sessions will depend on the complexity of the issues that will exist between you. However, as a rough guide you could expect about five to six sessions of about one and a half hours each.

Towards the end of the process a Memorandum of Understanding will be drawn up. This is a statement of everything you have proposed during mediation which you then take to your solicitor. The Memorandum itself is not legally binding but is intended for your solicitor to use in preparing a legally binding agreement, where appropriate.

The mediation process is confidential and what you say in mediation cannot be used later in a subsequent Court action. Facts disclosed during mediation in relation to your assets and liabilities, however, are regarded as open. Confidentiality may not apply if it appears that there is a risk of significant harm to a child or adult.

Although we receive grant support for mediation on child related issues, we do not receive any financial support for AIM and consequently make a charge for this service. If you are on a low income and eligible for legal aid you will be entitled to claim legal aid for mediation and you would do this through your solicitor at the outset.

In order for you to find out more you will be offered a confidential, individual, free appointment to discuss your particular situation.