Unlock Divorce Mediation: One Essential Emotion
Video Transcript
Trust is the essential emotion in divorce mediation, and both spouses must feel comfortable with the mediator from the start. When parties trust the mediator’s neutrality, they’re more likely to communicate, compromise, and reach a durable settlement. This article explains how trust develops early in the process and why it shapes mediation outcomes.
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
Well, it sounds like those, the couple, each party has to have some level of trust in the mediator before things may or may not work out in the end. But I think that’s part of the beginning process, wouldn’t it be?
Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Staten Island, New York
Absolutely. And that’s why it’s so important to feel comfortable. I tell people, you’ve got to go home and you have to talk between yourselves and do we both feel comfortable with this folk? Because if you don’t, you’ve got the wrong person. So that’s a great point that you made there.