Resolution Accreditation
Worried About Separating or Divorcing? Then Family Mediation Salisbury is for you!
Family Mediation Salisbury provides a less stressful, fair and often quicker solution for you and your partner when separating!
Based in Salisbury, Covers England & Wales
- Save Time
- Save Money
- Avoid Court
- Reduce Stress
- Evening Appointments
- Weekend Appointments
- Online sessions
"Hi, I'm Amanda. I have over 25 years of experience as a Divorce Lawyer. I have now started a Family Mediation service because I passionately believe that it's a better way of getting divorced and resolving both financial and children's matters."
Contact Amanda now for a free and confidential talk...
Trusted by Families Across the UK...
“Thank you Amanda for helping us both through this difficult time and helping us to consider all the options to help us both make better decisions for both our children and finances”
“My divorce had been very slow in reaching any agreement at all so I was signposted to Amanda who was wonderful. We had a consultation on line which I found to be both helpful, stress free and empowering. In the mist of all the jargon and documentation, here is a real person with real skills who wants to help . Thank you , Amanda”
“Amanda was great, very knowledgeable and caring. I believe she helped us so much we would not have been able to sort out our finances without her . Thanks again and I would recommend Amanda to anyone who needs mediation”
“We are so glad we chose family mediation and you, this enabled us to resolve matters more quickly and helped us save money”
“Amanda was incredibly proactive, helpful and professional when it came to my mediation process. I would highly recommend her to anyone who finds themselves in a difficult situation which requires mediation.”
“Amanda was very helpful and compassionate during all our sessions. Fair pricing for service.
Would recommend thank you Amanda”“Very pleased with the service provided, welcoming and fair approach to mediation – I highly recommend to anyone looking to start mediation for any reason”
“Amanda at New Horizon Family Mediation is breath of fresh air … her caring knowledgable professional approach is both comforting and positive. You can physically see her passion to help each person achieve a happy medium.”
“I found Amanda through a google search and beyond the website, she came across as an empathetic and experienced professional who helped me to find a resolution that was right for my personal situation. I would recommend her to anyone involved in a family issue”
What is Family Mediation?
Family Mediation Salisbury is non-confrontational in nature. It encourages people to focus on the future and problem-solving strategies rather than the problems of the past. The process is also “child-centred” whereby people are encouraged to make special provision for the needs of children.
- Sympathetic
- Solution Focused
- Child Focused
- Voluntary
- Respectful
- Transparent
- Save Time
- Saves Money
- Reduces Stress
How Can Family Mediation Help?
- Helping you to resolve financial matters
- Helping you to resolve matters concerning your children
- Helping grandparents arrange to see their children
- Helping discussions to agree the detail in pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements
- Helping the children have a voice through a child inclusive mediator
- is not a form of marriage counseling
How Family Mediation Works...
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Individual Sessions
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Joint Sessions
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Meet Amanda, Your Family Mediator...
Hobbies
Amanda lives with her husband, Richard in the New Forest, where she regularly walks and cycles. She has recently taken up beekeeping and owns an apiary of 3 hives – so please feel free to ask her about the honey for sale and natural bees wax food wraps.
Recently, she has returned to her love of art and paints regularly with a group of artists – She dreams of having her own exhibition one day.
She loves the great outdoors, and has a particular love for water so enjoys all water sports and is never happier when in, on or by the sea.
Qualifications
Amanda became a Resolution trained ‘All Issues Mediator’ in 2009 and accredited several years later. This enables her to deal with all aspects of family mediation and trained as a Resolution Collaborative Lawyer in 2006. She became a Resolution trained Professional Practice Consultant (PPC) in 2016.
All Mediators are required to enroll with a qualified PPC and must undertake a required number of hours consultancy with their PPC each year to retain their qualification. This allows her to assess Mediators who are working towards their Accreditation and mentor them during this process and beyond.
Amanda is an active member of the Salisbury & District Collaborative lawyers Group. The collaboratively trained family lawyers, family consultants and independent financial advisers meet regularly. She is also a member of ‘Resolve’ an independent group for lawyers and mediators in Hampshire.
Work
Amanda has been a Family Lawyer, Salisbury Divorce Lawyer and Collaborative Lawyer in private practice for over 25 years and qualified as a CILEX Family Lawyer with the Institute of Chartered Legal Executives.
Throughout her time in law, she has always chosen to specialize in Family Law. Amanda therefore has experience in the following; divorce and relationship breakdown, resolving financial matters, separation agreements, prenup agreements, occupation and non-molestation orders and all issues in relation to children.
Amanda is an Accredited Member of Resolution (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association). This is a professional body for family lawyers who sign up to abide by the Resolution Code of Conduct that promotes dealing with client family matters in a non-contentious way
Your Questions Answered
How do I get Started?
Fill out one of the forms on this page and Amanda will arrange to call you at a time that suites you. The call is totally free and Amanda will answer any questions you may have.
How can I be sure that mediation is fair?
Either of you can stop the mediation process at any time; mediation will only go ahead if both of you want it to. Mediators are impartial. The mediator does not take sides and is always there for both of you. Mediators don’t give advice, although they do provide information about legal principles and explain some of the things you should be thinking about.The mediator doesn’t ever make any decisions for you; you work out between you what proposals you think you would like to take to lawyers so that you can get advice and help before deciding to turn your proposals into a legally binding agreement.
How is Family Mediation different from the other options?
Unlike going to court or arbitration, family mediation recognises that you are the experts about your own family and leaves the decision-making to you.Unlike negotiating through your lawyers, family mediation allows you to speak directly to each other so that you can both explain what you are feeling and what is most important to you. It also lets you focus on the things that matter to you as a family.
What is the Family Mediation Process?
After signing the agreement to mediate, both of you will work with the mediator to:
- Explain your family situation.
- Set the mediation agenda. The mediation sessions are tailored around what you want and need to discuss.
- Agree on the issues that you need to discuss.
- Decide the priority of the issues. Some issues are more pressing than others and need to be resolved first, e.g., short-term financial support, holidays, contact.
- Set time scales to deal with some issues, e.g., for separation or divorce.
- Clarify the issues: sometimes it is not clear what matters are really in dispute and clarifying these avoid future misunderstanding.
- Consider whether any other specialists might be able to help you.
- Find common ground.
- Provide/obtain information, e.g., complete a financial questionnaire or have a form explained to you. If you have financial issues to discuss, it is particularly important to make sure everyone has a clear picture of the family’s financial situation. This involves each of you providing details about any property you own, and your income and expenditure, very much as you have to if you go to court.
- Look at the various options and reality test those options. When there are financial issues, you will need to consider what everyone in the family needs, especially the children.
- Arrive at the option that best suits both of you and work out the details of your proposals.
How private is the process and can what I say in mediation be used against me later?
In family mediation, you usually negotiate face to face with your partner about arrangements that need to be made for the future, with the help of one or two neutral third parties – the mediator or mediators.The information clients share with the mediator is kept confidential, with some minimal exceptions (similar to the exceptions that apply to lawyers and therapists and counsellors). Proposals put forward during mediation cannot be referred to in court proceedings. If you try mediation, but it doesn’t work, the court will never be told why it wasn’t successful.
What is a MIAM's?
A Mediation Information Assessment Meeting is a meeting with a specially qualified family mediator, who will explain to you the alternatives to the court process. Most divorcing and separating couples in England and Wales who want to use the court process to resolve any questions about children or money have to show that they have attended a MIAM before they can apply for a court order.
The purpose of the meeting is to allow you to find out whether going to court would be the best way of resolving the issues surrounding your relationship or marriage breakdown (e.g. children, property and financial matters). In particular, whether mediation could be an effective alternative.
At a MIAM, you will meet with a qualified family mediator and discuss your situation on a confidential basis. Usually, this is a one to one meeting.The mediator will provide information about options available to you to resolve the issues around your separation and will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each option. The mediator will also ask questions and assess whether mediation is a suitable way forward in your circumstances.
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