A Friendlier and Less Expensive Divorce Clients arriving in your office are usually confused about what mediation means, their legal rights, and how it's all going to be sorted out. You spend a good deal of your time just trying to educate them enough to proceed. The Divorce Mediation Handbook does much of this work for you. It explains the mediation procedure and reassures your clients that they can indeed work out their divorce in a reasonable and civil manner in mediation. It also gives them a great deal of information about how children respond to divorce how property issues are addressed how future support may be considered how to prepare for mediation Paula James, who has mediated over 600 divorces, offers the divorcing couple an encouraging and highly informative book to prepare them for your first session and the work ahead.