What is Mediation
Mediation is a means of alternative dispute resolution. It is a process in which an impartial third party, a mediator, facilitates the resolution of a dispute by promoting voluntary agreement by the parties to the dispute. A mediator facilitates communication, promotes understanding, focuses the parties on their interests, and uses creative problem-solving to enable the parties to reach their own agreement.
Mediation agreements allow the parties to have more flexibility and control over the outcomes and avoid a court order being imposed by a court.
Mediators keep information that is told to them by one party confidential until they are given permission to disclose it to the other party. The mediator and the parties also sign an agreement requiring them to keep information disclosed during the course of mediation confidential.