by Paul Sandford | Sep 20, 2020
Contact us Not so long ago I struck up conversation with an Anglo-Australian lady in her early forties. In the course of telling her a little about me I mentioned that I am a civil and family mediator. This interested her greatly and she recounted her experience of...
by Suzy Miller | Sep 14, 2020
Contact us I’m going to bust a divorce mediation myth. It is the one called: “My husband/wife won’t use mediation.” https://youtube.com/watch?v=iBgwxYbzZgQ%3Frel%3D0 Now stay with me – you don’t want to be making a mistake believing a myth that could cost...
by Henry Elliston | Sep 7, 2020
Contact us This account demonstrates how good, independent financial planning can take the sting out of divorce and faciliate an acceptable and permanent settlement. I was recently working with some clients who had filed for divorce and had reached deadlock on how to...
by Brendan Schütte | Jul 13, 2020
Instead of considering ourselves the hero of our own story, and those we are in conflict with as villains, Brendan Schutte encourages people in troubled relationships to ‘rewrite the script’. HIDDEN agendas. Unconscious desires. Unspoken assumptions. This column is...
by Paul Sandford | Jun 29, 2020
Contact us By Paul Sandford, the ASM Plus director A few months ago, I facilitated this particular case on line. It very clearly demonstrates how effective mediation can be in a domestic setting. Additionally, it resonates very strongly in the context of the current...
by Paul Sandford | Jun 15, 2020
Contact us Of late we at ASM Plus have noted a number of very positive anecdotal accounts on the internet of families who have taken the opportunity of being confined at home to bond and do things together that they might not have had time for earlier this year....