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Discover Solution-Focused Divorce™ with The Resolution Center

When you're facing the challenges of divorce, you need a partner who can help you navigate the future, secure your financial stability, and prioritize the well-being of your children. That's where The Resolution Center, LLC comes in. Established in 2011, with 49 years of experience, we offer comprehensive divorce services, including:

Mediation and arbitration
Child and family advocacy
Financial planning
Divorce coaching

Get in touch with The Resolution Center to start your Solution-Focused Divorce™ journey.

Solution-Focused Divorce™ Mediation

Separating or divorcing can be a complicated, fearful, frustrating, and tortuous process. Imagine the difficulty of getting two people who are often at odds with each other personally to agree to the terms of severing the ties of their marriage while simultaneously providing future stability, safety, and even prosperity in their ongoing parental relationship.

At The Resolution Center, we create a defined path to achieve a positive outcome. That path uses a mediation/arbitration process to resolve and decide all of the legal issues involved in a separation or divorce process, while also adding other integrated services to address the many non-legal issues such as a financial plan, parenting, social, psychological, and extended family concerns.

Solution-Focused Divorce™ does not focus on rights, past wrongs, or settling scores. Instead, the process focuses on:

The Future: Solution-Focused Divorce™ understands that divorce shatters dreams and clients struggle with uncertainty and fear. At The Resolution Center, we support clients as they move through emotional turbulence. We focus on the future of the re-structured family. We help clients envision a life that gets better, and then we engage in a process to make that vision a reality. For everyone.
The Children: If clients are also parents, their number one concern is the impact of the divorce on the children. And rightly so. Divorce often becomes a child’s greatest fear, abandonment by their parents.
Children survive divorce if, and only if, parents find a way to respect, honor, and work with each other. When parents continue to fully engage as 'Mom and Dad,' children grieve the divorce, but they also survive and thrive beyond it. The Resolution Center educates and equips parents to craft a plan that enables them to co-parent effectively, even as they create separate lives.
Financial Security: Both households need financial security to achieve a better future. Solution-Focused Divorce™ doesn’t focus on dividing property. Instead, we focus on utilizing resources accumulated during the marriage to create the most financial stability for both houses.

The Path

The process begins with a definition of the path. The parties and a conciliator meet to discuss the available services, time frames, and costs. Once the services have been defined, the parties are provided a services contract that includes a detailed estimate of the expected total fees and the time frame involved in the process.

Mediation/Arbitration

This path takes the parties outside of the traditional litigation process. It substitutes an arbitrator for the judge. In the Solution-Focused Divorce™ process, the parties proceed to mediation and with the support of other adjunctive services reach a mutually agreeable solution based on the real circumstances of the parties, not some assumed or standard template formula imposed by the Court.

The parties begin their journey on the path with a mediator. Mediation is a facilitated, structured, interactive dialogue between disputing parties that uses negotiation and communication techniques to help resolve conflict in a series of 1.5 -- 2-hour sessions spaced over weeks or months. Each session is typically focused on either a single topic or a series of interrelated issues, including children/parenting issues, financial and budgeting issues, living arrangements, etc. As the process proceeds the parties are encouraged to explore and contemplate different possible solutions so that they can both think them through thoroughly and try them out experientially before committing to any final decisions.

Occasionally, the parties may not agree on every issue in mediation. In that case, the arbitrator can make a binding decision on the remaining issue(s), taking into account the parties’ mediated agreements and priorities presented during mediation. Even at the point of impasse, the parties remain in control, with the option to choose among several forms of arbitration.

After the arbitration, the arbitrator will file a final arbitration decision with the Court that incorporates both the mediated agreements of the parties and the arbitrator’s decision on any open issues.

Child and Family Advocacy

When there are minor children in the family, the path also requires the services of a Child and Family Advocate (“CFA”). The CFA is a little like a “Super Nanny.” Once the
parents complete the exercises through the uptoparents.org website, the CFA will meet with the parents to discuss their perceptions and understandings of who their child(ren) is now and what they see as their desired future.

Following that meeting, the CFA will meet with each parent and each child separately and together to see and understand the child and the interaction of the child and the parent. She will make a “curbstone” developmental assessment of the child and seek to understand the child’s perception and experience of the parents’ disputes and their impact on the child and their vision of the future.

Once these meetings are complete, the CFA will share the information in an informal discussion with the parents as a report of her findings. The CFA will review parenting plans developed with the mediator or included in any arbitration decisions from the child's perspective.

Finally, the CFA and the arbitrator will prepare and file with the Court a “Best Interests of the Child” statement to justify and explain the decisions of the parents and/or the arbitrator in any final arbitration decision that is filed with the Court.

Financial Planner

The parties may also choose to add a financial planner to their path. As a part of the mediation, the parties will not only discuss the allocation of their existing assets and liabilities but also create a set of post-divorce budgets that will serve as a basis for discussions on how they will provide for themselves and the children. Those views are static. They look at a point in time.

The job of the financial planner is to look beyond that point into the future to project how each parent will fare on their own. That perspective is usually a very “eye-opening” experience for most families.

There is a review of the financial situation of each party included in the mediation/arbitration process. However, many couples will want to take the financial planning process to a deeper and more comprehensive level. The financial planner who reviews the case will also be available outside of the path to consult with either party following the divorce.

Divorce Coach

The Solution-Focused Divorce™ path also includes a separate divorce coach assigned to each of the parents. The role of the divorce coach is twofold, first to help each party look beyond the separation or divorce into the future and to create a vision for that future, and second, to assist the party in navigating the separation or divorce process itself.

The coach will explain terms, put suggestions into the context of the individual’s daily life, and help the party moderate and manage their emotional reactions during the process, all while keeping the ultimate vision in focus.

What Sets The Resolution Center Apart

At The Resolution Center, we're not just about providing services. We're about building relationships, understanding your unique situation, and helping you deal with all aspects of divorce. We offer: