Southern Mediation Services provide a quality service for Dispute Resolution across a broad-range of matters. We provide a professional and competent response which will allow facilitation of safe and practical decisions, whatever the issues.
- Communication between parents and children
- Where the child’s voice and/or their participation will assist the parents to decide
- Separation, contemplating separation, divorce or marriage dissolution
- Where a previous Parenting Order, Agreement or Plan is not working
- How parental visits and child care should be structured, including the child/young person’s relationship with an absent parent
- Contact issues with grandparents/whanau/extended family
- Disputes over the transport of children/young people to and from either parent and conflict at change over times
- Domestic or family violence, between parents or between children and parents
- Family breakdown, dysfunction or conflict within the home
- Where religion or culture is an issue
- Relocation by a parent to another part of the country or overseas
- Differences on educational issues, such as home-schooling or which school your child should attend?
- Health related issues such as which treatment is best for your child, whether or not to vaccinate, or the child’s impairment?
- Adoption, foster, whanau care which has broken down
- Blended families
- Where a parent is in prison
- Where a parent has a mental health issue
- Where a parent is addicted or dependent
- Court Directed mediation
- Bereavement through a parent, child/young person’s death or suicide
- Child/young person’s offending
- Privately arranged mediation