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Mediation v. Litigation with Divorce & Custody

Do you really want to spend your children's college education account, your vacation money, & the full value of your home on your divorce? King Mediation asks you to consider divorce mediation or custody mediation as a lower-cost, lower-stress alternative:

* Think we've exaggerated the costs of litigation? Consider this quote from one of Los Angeles California's top judges made at a bar association meeting in September 2002: "By the time we see [divorce] cases in court, most people have spent all of their community assets on the divorce itself. By that time, we're just dividing debts and allocating attorney's fees."

** For this calculation, we've used a 4% simple interest rate and subtracted the cost of mediation from the cost of litigation. This figure represents the amount of money you'd save by mediating your divorce instead of litigating, and how much that savings would be worth if you invested it at 4% interest for 20 years.