Family Mediation Salisbury

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!

New Horizon Family Mediation Salisbury Dorset Wiltshire Hampshire

Does any of this sound familiar...

"I have never felt so scared and sad in my life"

"I've been wondering what to do"

"One morning everything was going according to plan; by the end of the day your entire future is so murky a crystal ball couldn't even see it"

"I was incredibly terrified to break it off"

"How do I move on?"

"We both genuinely care about our sons well being. Where we differ is the idea of division of assets and child support"

What is Family Mediation Salisbury?

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

Firstly, what Family Mediation Salisbury isn't: Family Mediation Salisbury is not a form of marriage counselling.

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

Benefits of Family Mediation Salisbury...

Better Outcomes

You are able to discuss bespoke agreements that suit you, your partner and children! If matters proceed to court, you may have to accept an agreement that the court chooses, and this may not suit either of you. You get to decide what provisions are made and how matters will be resolved!

Save Time

A court application with a Family Lawyer can easily take a year when matters are resolved through the courts. The courts are currently overwhelmed with family law cases and this is causing significant delays.

Reduce Stress

You will both have control of how matters are progressed and managed. While concerns remain unresolved, this causes undue stress as you often cannot anticipate an outcome and are anxious about the future.
Remember the Mediator remains impartial they are not there to judge you they are assisting you.

Save Money

Typically, if you issue a court application your legal costs could easily be between £8,000 to £25,000 each and, if matters proceed to a contested final hearing your legal costs are likely to be much more. Costs that will only deplete the family purse. Family Mediation Salisbury is a great option if you want to save money on the divorce process.

Access to other professionals

You will be given access to the following additional professionals during the mediation process in the event you require the additional services:

Family lawyers
Financial Advisers
Pension Actuaries
Child Inclusive Mediators
Accountants

Funding Options

Will will assess you to find out if you qualify for any legal funding to help pay for your mediation.

The Ministry of Justice has provided funding under the Mediation Voucher Scheme. This Voucher is not means tested and is available to all couples who require assistance in mediation for financial and childrens matters. The Voucher can be utilised towards joint mediation appointments and has a value of £500.

We can facilitate some legal aid work if you are eligible for this funding

Free supportive and friendly phone conversation!

Would you like to talk?

Amanda Bio New Horizon Family Mediation Salisbury Dorset Wiltshire Hampshire

Amanda Trappes-Lomax FCILEx

Resolution Accredited Mediator, Collaborative Lawyer
and Professional Practice Consultant

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

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.

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.

What our clients say...

Here's a glimpse at some of the amazing feedback we get from our clients...

“I really felt you made a real difference to our situation and would not hesitate to recommend you”

Anne

“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”

Debbie and Ian

“We are so glad we chose family mediation and you, this enabled us to resolve matters more quickly and helped us save money”

David

The Family Mediation Process...

Step 1

Initial Consultation

Step 2

Separate Meetings

Step 3

Joint Meetings

Step 4

The Agreement

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Would you like to talk?

Call Me

Call Amanda now on: 07775 038 482

Connect via email

Email Amanda here:
[email protected]

Our Location

3rd Floor,
Cross Keys House,
22 Queen Street,
Salisbury,
SP1 1EY

Family Mediation Salisbury

Worried About Separating or Divorcing? Then Family Mediation Salisbury is for you!