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Mediation

David Siegel: Hello. Welcome to Legal Action. My name is David Siegel along with my co-host Jesse Barrientes, and today we're going to be talking about divorce mediation. Jesse, welcome to the show. Good to see you.

Jesse Barrientes: Thanks, Dave. You too.

David Siegel: Jesse, you are a mediator under the court. Is that correct?

Jesse Barrientes: That's correct. I'm an approved mediator, and also an approved mediator for DuPage County as well.

David Siegel: So you're someone who gets called upon to mediate divorce cases at the courts insistence and request?

Jesse Barrientes: Right, appointed by the court, usually selected by the parties, but appointed by the court. That's correct.

David Siegel: Okay. Well let's jump in. This is divorce mediation, so obviously we're dealing with an underlying divorce case.

Jesse Barrientes: Right.

David Siegel: How does that start?

Jesse Barrientes: Initially there's a breakdown of a marriage, and one party, the husband or the wife, files a petition for dissolution of marriage here in Waukegan. The petition gets filed with the court. Most often it gets placed with service with either the sheriff, or a special process server. The other party is served. After that time they have 30 days from the date they get served to file their appearance and their answer. After that's done, there's a whole bunch of different things that need to happen. For example, discovery. I know we've talked about that on previous shows where there's interrogatories, and those are kind of written questions people have to answer. Request to produce, that means you have to produce certain documents. Generally, they're financial. A lot of times though if we're dealing with – that's where mediation comes in, in this context, is when we're dealing with visitation, and or we're dealing with custody. Maybe we should explain a little about custody.

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Mediation

When mediation is best

Selecting a mediator

Custody schedule

Visitation schedule

Mediation settlement

Child support

Mediating child issues

Cost of mediation

Success of mediation

Benefits of mediation

Proceeding past mediation

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