Family Divorce Separation Case Study 

From going through the finances, each side highlighted what was important to them and why, i.e. it had been their idea, they had put up most of the deposit, made most of the re/payments. Where both of them had equally invested it was agreed that they would split the proceeds on sale / cashing in, swap it for something they wanted more favourably. It took some doing; however a list of items was generated, highlighting who would have what and why.

It was agreed from the beginning that the mother would have custody of the children; however the couple were in dispute over the father’s access rights and indeed his families. It was agreed until he purchased a new house / permanent place to live, he would visit the children at their home every second weekend, to include excursions and activities away from the home.

As the mother did not want any of her in laws to come to her home anymore, it was agreed that the children could visit their grandparents and so forth during the fathers access times. School holidays would be split equally once the father purchased a new house / permanent place to live, until then with prior arrangement the father could visit.

Although the parties did not get exactly what they wanted when they arrived, i.e. I am not in the wrong, so I want more, should have more, they achieved an agreement which they could both realistically live with. Their agreement was then drawn up and finalised between their solicitors at a later date giving them a legally binding agreement, neither of which attended the mediation to save the parties costs.