10 Reasons Why You Should Choose Mediation or Therapy Rather Than Litigate Over Your Children

1. Because you selflessly love your children more than you love yourself.
   
   
2. Because you selflessly love your children more than you hate your partner.
   
   
3. Because you love yourself enough to practice emotional intelligence for the benefit of the people, especially your children.
   
   
4. Because your children will benefit from and appreciate your ability to co-parent for their sake by maintaining or developing the ability to respectfully and kindly communicate with the other parent by actively listening to and empathizing with one another.
   
   
5. Because you recognize and wish to teach your children that it is way more important to be “kind” than to be “right”.
   
   
6. Because you recognize that no matter how you feel about your partner or the other parent he or she person will hopefully be a very important person to your children for the rest of their lives.
   
   
7. Because moving on with a second family will be easier for your children, for the children of both your first marriage and your second marriage if they can maintain a cordial relationship with their children’s other parent.
   
   
8. Because you recognize the importance of being able to address financial issues in a private, more confidential setting without the pressure and adversarial context of litigation in court, especially when sensitive issues like income, tax liabilities, property, or custodial issues are involved.
   
   
9. Because you recognize that it will cost much less money to utilize one mediator and one therapist along with (a) “mediation-friendly” attorney(s) rather than multiple attorneys, accountants, mental health professionals, business valuations, real estate appraisals, and so on, seeking discovery from one another.
   
   
10. Because you want to keep as much of your earnings and assets as you can and not end up using your earnings and depleting your assets paying for attorneys and other professionals for matters you could have potentially resolved with the help of an experienced mediator and  therapist.
    
    

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