Divorce Mediator and Child Psychologist
We divorce crazy in this country. The adversarial process often takes an already difficult situation and makes it worse. Despite parents’ goodwill efforts to shield their children, adversarial divorce polarizes families, often forcing children to take sides in parental battles. As you can imagine, such a process makes it even more difficult for the couple to successfully co-parent their children after the divorce. In addition, adversarial divorce can be enormously expensive and emotionally depleting.
Divorce mediation is an alternative, non-adversarial method of divorce that attempts to help couples dissolve their marriages in more constructive ways than adversarial litigation. Typically, it is completed in a fraction of the time, and is far less expensive, and emotionally draining. At The Center, couples meet together with Dr. Schrag with a goal of reaching a fair and comprehensive settlement in an efficient and cost effective manner.
Dr. Schrag assists couples to develop a thoughtful parenting plan and helps them reach agreement around the range of issues they need to negotiate including (but not limited to) Child Support, Maintenance (Alimony) and Equitable Distribution of Property. Couples need not be educated about these issues prior to coming to mediation. Dr. Schrag will teach you what you need to know and, throughout the mediation, parties are free to consult with attorneys or other professionals, as they deem necessary. Where appropriate, neutral financial and tax experts are consulted. Since Dr. Schrag is also a Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years of experience with children, and adults, mediating couples will learn how to effectively co-parent after divorce, and will learn methods to both minimize the negative impact of divorce on children as well as help children successfully adjust to divorce.