Expert Attorney Explains If Mediation Can Save Your Marriage
Can mediation save a marriage? Occasionally—a couple times a year, couples reconcile, says New York divorce attorney Bill Leininger, who deliberately raises the possibility when many mediators won't. He notes matrimonial lawyers have an ethical duty at the first meeting to explore reconciliation. To refocus warring parents, he often asks what they'd want their children to remember about the divorce.
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Answered by Bill Leininger · Staten Island, NY
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Can mediation save a marriage?
Occasionally—a couple times a year couples reconcile, and he deliberately raises the possibility when many mediators won't, since matrimonial lawyers have an ethical duty to explore reconciliation at the first meeting.
How does he refocus warring parents?
By asking what they'd want their children to remember about the divorce, shifting the focus to minimizing harm to the kids.
What's the headstone exercise?
A perspective-shifting exercise where he asks a spouse how they'd want to be remembered, to move them past the heat of the moment.
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