MATT SOSSI
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San Antonio Mediation
February 17 th, 2018 SAN ANTONIO MEDIATION
IN THIS ISSUE
Where do we go from here? by
Matt Sossi, Attorney, Mediator and Author
You know you want to be divorced. What’s next?
collaborate, compromise accommodate or avoid.
So where do you go from here? That’s the milliondollar question.
For divorcing parents who wish to co-parent its important to understand the best option to resolve conflict.
There are no road maps to help you navigate through your divorce. When you hear the word divorce you most likely think divorce think conflict. Divorce does not mean that you need to resolve your issues through litigation. There are, in fact, many ways to conflict: we compete
The ABA notes that parents who learn how to work through their problems have the best chance of not only working through present conflict, but resolving future disputes as well. For divorcing parent who want to co-parent, the choice of how to resolve conflict is of extreme importance.
Goals for the Soul: Step One: Please review my Divorce Guide: Goals for the Soul Click here
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Mediate Don’t Litigate Stop, think and understand your options Should You Mediate or Litigate? For my free guide please Click here
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Matt Sossi is the author of “You’re an Apple and You Married an Orange.” and followed it up with the “ABC’s of Coparenting.”
So you’re an apple and you married an orange. It’s okay to be different. You are never going to change your child’s other parent.
Your question is how are you going to relate to this person. How are you going to handle conflict?
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BENEFITS OF TRANSFORMATIVE MEDIATION
RESOURCES
PARENTING PLANS
Transformative Mediations allow parties the right to communicate directly with one another to address the issues confronting them.
Can be overwhelming at first. The terminology is brand new to most parents. My guide takes you through 1. the statutory presumptions of rights and duties given to joint managing conservators
TRANSPARANCY – no need to worry about the other parent’s agenda when they are sitting right with you talking through the problems face to face.
2. the standard possession order
COLLABORATIVE – Listen, understand and respond – what is the issue, why do you feel there is a disagreement?
4. school schedule
IN CONTROL – You set the agenda - get it all out – this conflict ends today!
To view our parenting plan workbook
3. extended standard possession order
5. summer schedule 6. holiday schedule
click here Matt Sossi is a family law attorney and certified family law mediator. Trained as a collaborative divorce attorney.
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Mediation Matt has a particular set of skills to help parents wanting to work through their issues during the divorce process. Matt Sossi is the executive director of Kids First Parents Second a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing resources to divorcing parents.
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