Straight-forward, honest, and realistic family mediation.
Dylan sees mediation as a straightforward, practical method for resolving family disputes. As your mediator, Dylan avoids over-idealizing harmony; there are no goals here to “solve” or change people; rather, his mediation process focuses on establishing realistic and workable solutions that benefit all parties.
Dylan’s process is also always focused on reducing the cost of court based litigation, and facilitating decisions that meet to each family’s unique circumstances.
Whether the mediation conclude in interim, partial, or final agreements – Dylan can help your family navigate complex issues while keeping your long-term well-being at the forefront.
Three types of broad mediations:
- Family Mediations
- Financial/Asset Mediations
- Comprehensive Mediations
- What is a Family Mediation
Establishing how major decisions regarding your children’s well-being will be made.
Developing a schedule that prioritizes your children's best interests.
Deciding where your children will live and how time will be shared.
Factoring in their views and preferences on important family matters.
- Financial Mediations
Determining if child support is payable and how much is appropriate.
Deciding entitlement, amount, and duration of spousal support.
Establishing each party’s accurate income for financial agreements.
Determining whether the home will be kept, sold, or bought out, and structuring payments accordingly.
Negotiating the fair distribution of shared assets and belongings.
Ensuring an equitable division of marital assets and liabilities.
Assessing the value of businesses, real estate, and other significant assets.
- Mediation can help you address:
Establishing how major decisions regarding your children’s well-being will be made.
Developing a schedule that prioritizes your children's best interests.
Deciding where your children will live and how time will be shared.
Factoring in their views and preferences on important family matters.
Determining if child support is payable and how much is appropriate.
Deciding entitlement, amount, and duration of spousal support.
Establishing each party’s accurate income for financial agreements.
Determining whether the home will be kept, sold, or bought out, and structuring payments accordingly.
Negotiating the fair distribution of shared assets and belongings.
Ensuring an equitable division of marital assets and liabilities.
Assessing the value of businesses, real estate, and other significant assets.
A process designed to save you money and keep you in control.
Although literature paints family mediation as the “peaceful alternative” to litigation – peace and healing have very little to do with a successful separation process. Mediation’s true purpose is to get your family to a place where you can reach a baseline level of agreement about critical family issues – so you can meet the legal necessities of separating, move on, and continue with your life.
Outside of that, the most significant selling point of mediation is that it can save you tens of thousands of dollars in navigating the traditional legal separation process, keeps the decision-making power in your hands, and gets you to a resolution faster than the traditional legal process.
Litigation can be costly, time-consuming, and adversarial – while Mediation is a process designed to allow parties to remain in control of their outcomes and move forward with their lives quickly.
- What we believe
The Neutral Role
Dylan emphasizes his role as a neutral facilitator, ensuring a level playing field for both parties. His process is built on transparency and trust, allowing families to engage openly and collaboratively without fear of bias or judgment.
- My primary goal as your family mediator is to:
Court processes can be lengthy and expensive (a traditional contested divorce costs on average $18,250/party, a 5-day trial $30,876 on average in Ontario). Mediation streamlines the process.
Mediation is both a process of coming to decisions as much as finding mutually beneficial solutions.
The best interest of the children is at the heart of all decisions made during mediation.
I am here to support you with any questions as you navigate the mediation process. For those who need continued guidance, I also offer post-mediation support to help ensure agreements are successfully implemented.
