Mediator
Parenting Coordinator
MACKENZIE FRIEND
Relationship Facilitator
Mediator
Mediator - It is not An End, But A Beginning
Can your lawyer guarantee you a good outcome?
Is it YOUR desired outcome?
Could you live with the outcome?
The only one that can be right is YOU!
Unfortunately, in Hong Kong, the legal process tends to be an adversarial one. It is therefore impossible for the lawyers of both parties to be right unless they agree on every issue. At the very least, one of them must be wrong; it might be your lawyer or the other side’s lawyer. It may even be that both are wrong. However, it is impossible for both to be right.
You should also be aware that even lawyers have different perspectives on the same matter depending on which party they are representing. Moreover, the same lawyer might have different, and even opposite, advice for different clients, even in the same circumstances, depending on whom they represent.
Most disputes can be resolved more positively through mediation, where the focus is on achieving a result that both parties can live with now and in the future. Mediation is a confidential process, where I help you control the actual process, which helps you control the outcome and get the desired one.
Conflict resolution is the daily life of a professional mediator.
If you wish to avoid litigation, I am here to facilitate your efforts to find a reasonable and equitable solution.
Parenting coordinator
A professional third-party, impartial, trained parenting coordinator is assisting parents to implement court orders made on children’s arrangements and to resolve issues that arise from it.
A parenting coordinator is authorised to make simple decisions on matters, in case of dispute, within a specific scope of responsibilities agreed between the parties. The parties are then bound to follow those decisions.
MACKENZIE FRIEND
WHO GETS TO DECIDE THE FUTURE OF YOUR FAMILY And children?
A lawyer that never once have spent any time with your children?
A Social officer that sees you for two meetings and “evaluates” your parenting skills?
A Judge that never have to answer your children’ questions in the darkness of the night or calmed them down and held their hands when they started developing different kinds of anxieties?
A barrister that never had the chance to look at your children’ eyes or hug them strongly and try to find the power to promise “it will be ok” when you didn’t really know it will be … ?
Also, who lives with the consequences of this?
Moreover, Who is accountable for this outcome?
If you are going through a divorce or considering one, there is an abundance of beneficial information that could help you.
I can assist you first in explaining the whole process and the variety of directions it can take … you will benefit from understanding the role and value of the other professionals who may need to get involved in your process, such as lawyers, psychologists, social workers, child therapists, among others.
I can help with the goal-setting, decision-making and considering options in almost every aspect of divorce; dealing with financial matters, getting appropriate emotional support, resolving custodial issues and moving forward with co-parenting, preparing for being single again, and much more.
The custodial and financial decisions that you make as part of your separation/divorce are likely to be the most important decisions of your entire lifetime.
Get the right knowledge from the right person and act in the best interest for your family and your children.
You know your family better than anyone else.
You know what you wish for your children, and you want to be the one next to them always.
So why to let someone else “Decide” for you?
RElationship Facilitator
By both, professional and personal experience, I help families to make a difference in their lives by empowering parties in the relationship, to create healthier and productive relationships that ultimately build trust and stability, tolerance and happiness.
This service is for families, coupled pre-marriage, during the marriage, separation/divorce, children in the family, new partners, other significant, blended families.