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Dennis P. Levin, Attorney at Law / Mediator Divorce Mediation Center of Ohio Email Us 5910 Landerbrook Drive - Suite 200 Cleveland, Ohio 44124 Phone: 216-831-3939 Fax: 440-446-1240

Divorce Mediation Center of Ohio is headed by Attorney Dennis P. Levin and is designed to help you and your spouse work out a negotiated divorce settlement. Our mediation techniques offer a low cost, fast and efficient divorce service. Our fees are based on an hourly rate that is the cost for both husband and wife, as the mediator works for both of you. Please call our office at (216) 831-3939 to schedule your first appointment.

Divorce mediation still feels like a new idea in some parts of the country, but it's increasingly well-known and widely accepted. Mediation means different things to different people. In mediation you and your spouse will sit down in the same room with each other and with a neutral mediator. With the mediator's help, you will work through all the issues you need to resolve so the two of you can get through your divorce.

DIVORCE MEDIATION allows both parties to identify, negotiate and resolve the issues raised by the decision to divorce. This neutral person establishes firm ground rules and a confidential environment so that emotionally charged issues can be talked about safely. The mediator helps both spouses gather necessary information and review it systematically. At times, the mediator helps formulate a more creative solution than the court could offer. When parenting agreements and financial distribution plans are made by the spouses themselves, there is a better chance of meeting the needs of the entire family. Mediated divorces have a higher rate of long-range parental cooperation and a lower frequency of costly returns to court!!

Mediation is flexible and confidential. It gives you and your spouse a way to settle the conflict between you, which is natural and inevitable, in a way that helps you to work together after your divorce.

The mediator remains neutral between the husband and the wife. That means the mediator can't give advice to either party, and also can't act as a lawyer for either party.

What the mediator can do, though, is to point out in open session to both spouses things that each of them should be aware of about what they're trying to accomplish. That open and free exchange of information frees up both spouses to negotiate with each other in confidence. Because both spouses are working with the same base of information, it usually takes far less time to negotiate a resolution that makes sense to both spouses.

Mediation is voluntary. It continues only for so long as all three of you - you, your spouse, and the mediator -- want it to. Your mediator has to have a good reason to withdraw. You or your spouse can withdraw from mediation at any time, for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all.

Does mediation really work? In a word, yes. Statistics indicate that when you compare couples who have mediated their divorce with couples who go through an adversarial divorce, mediating couples are more likely to be satisfied with the process and the results; likely to take less time and spend less money; and are less likely to go back to court later to fight about something.

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