The length of a mediation session is two hours. Appointments are typically scheduled every two weeks. Every couple meets with their mediator as often as their situation requires: parents with minor children (under age eighteen) and/or couples with extensive assets typically need more time to reach a final settlement of all issues. Each client may communicate with the mediator between sessions via telephone, e-mail, or written correspondence.

Your Separation Agreement may include one or more of the following areas:

1. Joint residence: buyout, transfer, sale, joint ownership or tax consequences
2. Brokerage, bank, and investment accounts
3. Stock options, stocks, bonds and funds
4. Investment/rental property: income, expenses, ownership and taxes
5. Vehicles, house contents, and miscellaneous assets
6. Legal custody of minor children
7. Physical custody and parenting schedules
8. Child support
9. College costs, educational trusts, and custodial accounts
10. Tax deductions/exemptions
11. Capital gains tax consequences upon sales and transfers of property
12. Medical insurance coverage for children
13. Whole/universal life insurance
14. Life insurance coverage
15. Self-employed, family or other business
16. Retirement/pension plans: 401K, 403B, TIAA-CREF, and IRA
17. Federal and Massachusetts taxes
18. Trusts: beneficial interests, irrevocable and revocable
19. Liabilities: charge card debt, car loans and lease, mortgage and equity line, promissory note, educational debt, and all other debt