Family Mediation FAQs toddler and mom What do family mediators do? We help people resolve disagreements about child custody, parenting plans, child support, alimony, separation, reconciliation, property distribution, elder care, how to budget the family’s money, distribution of inherited property,...
Our Mission sisters Colin Family Mediation Group (CFMG) has seven certified, professional family mediators ready to help families in Virginia resolve disagreements and stay out of court. Our primary mission is to help family members solve problems. We can help...
Your Child’s Graduation After a Divorce My daughter inspired this article. Her father and I separated when she was just 2 1/2 years old. She cannot remember a time when her family was just one family in one house. When...
Co-Parenting With Your Ex, Mindfully For many separated, divorced, or never-married parents, this is not easy. Ellen Kellner, author of The Pro-Child Way®: Parenting with an Ex, focuses on our greater spiritual existence and how it applies to fostering what all...
Title: From The Simple To The Complex, Mediation Can Help by Guest Author Joe Dillon dividing house ownership? If you’re contemplating a divorce and thinking about mediating, you may be thinking it all sounds too good to be true. After all,...
Why I Became a Family Mediator by Virginia L Colin, Ph.D. The short version? It’s a calling. Here is the longer version: My first clue about what I should be doing came late in the 1990′s, when I learned...
Advantages of Mediation When Divorcing handshake In many cases, you can save thousands of dollars by having a mediator help you and your former partner resolve as much as possible in mediation. A mediator’s area of expertise is facilitating communication...
Recommendations for Divorce Reform sisters Many people still think divorce must be handled through attorneys and litigation. A large number of experts disagree. Deborah Moskovitch recently summarized some of their recommendations in a Huffington Post article. Here, with Deborah’s permission,...
Divorce Corp – A Documentary Film Everyone who is considering divorce should see this movie. Most of them should then run away from litigious lawyers and find good professional family mediators to work with. Here are links to trailers from...
Does Divorce Mediation Work? Source: TopCounselingSchools.org Virginia L Colin, Ph.D. is a Professional Family Mediator certified by the Virginia Supreme Court. She is not an attorney or a therapist. For a free consultation about whether family mediation would be helpful for...