Two Smart Ways To Help You Reach A Financial Settlement
On this page you'll learn about two clever ways to help you and your former partner reach a financial settlement.
- If you aren't clear about why you should avoid the legal system, read on.
- If you already know that trying to use the legal system is not for you, you can go straight to a description of the services here.
Think Carefully About What Kind Of Help To Get
A majority of separating couples need assistance to reach a financial settlement. There are really only three paths you can choose between. You can:
These are enormously different paths. Here's how they compare, on typical costs, times to achieve a result and success rates (ie. do they succeed at all):
- Hire lawyers, or
- Battle it out in court, or
- Ask a neutral third party (ie mediators, such as Divorce Partners) to help.
These are enormously different paths. Here's how they compare, on typical costs, times to achieve a result and success rates (ie. do they succeed at all):
If you choose lawyers or courts, then (whether you realise it or not) you’re choosing an adversarial path – you’re declaring war. That always makes it antagonistic, slow and expensive - it's totally predictable.
And the tragedy of those two options is this: you simply won't get a better financial result. You'll just burn up money and years of your life, for a worse financial outcome.
Clever people don't dive into painful, slow and expensive processes that produce inferior outcomes...
And the tragedy of those two options is this: you simply won't get a better financial result. You'll just burn up money and years of your life, for a worse financial outcome.
Clever people don't dive into painful, slow and expensive processes that produce inferior outcomes...
The Smartest Way To Settle
Logically, using a neutral party is by far the most sensible path to a financial settlement.
Divorce Partners is one of Australia's leading financial settlement specialists. Like all mediators, we only work for couples, not one side.
We have two unique methods to help you reach a deal:
1. Settlement Report - an objective assessment of your facts leading to our recommended deal for you.
2. Shuttle Negotiation - a rapid, back-and-forth communication seeking a deal you can both accept.
They're both quick, highly effective and inexpensive. Read on to learn more.
Divorce Partners is one of Australia's leading financial settlement specialists. Like all mediators, we only work for couples, not one side.
We have two unique methods to help you reach a deal:
1. Settlement Report - an objective assessment of your facts leading to our recommended deal for you.
2. Shuttle Negotiation - a rapid, back-and-forth communication seeking a deal you can both accept.
They're both quick, highly effective and inexpensive. Read on to learn more.
Settlement Report
If you’re just starting a separation or have been trying for a while to reach a settlement, you should consider ordering your own personal Settlement Report.
The Settlement Report is a neutral, detailed and customised settlement recommendation for you and your former partner, based on your particular situation.
It’s the simplest way to move towards a financial settlement with minimum fuss, cost or delay.
The Settlement Report is a neutral, detailed and customised settlement recommendation for you and your former partner, based on your particular situation.
It’s the simplest way to move towards a financial settlement with minimum fuss, cost or delay.
What's in the Report?
The Settlement Report is a neutral and objective evaluation of your financial situation, leading to a specific recommendation on how you and your former partner could – and probably should – settle financially.
The Settlement Report strips away the myths, delusions and misunderstandings that create unreasonable expectations and cause delay, frustration and wasted money. The Report shows you the actual outcomes that couples with your fact pattern end up with – and why. |
You’ll see:
- where you sit relative to other Australian couples.
- what “entitlements” really means.
- why you should only seek a normal, “fair and reasonable” deal.
- what that means for you in terms of dollars, time and your ability to get on with your life.
Prepared from a neutral perspective
Our focus is not a fanciful theory about "your best case", but rather to identify the “most likely case” for you as a couple – one which best meets the criteria of being “fair and reasonable” for you both.
Your Settlement Report provides a recommended settlement deal structure for the two of you:
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It’s the fastest and least stressful way to get a clear, independent assessment of where you stand, what your options are and what your optimal settlement deal should look like.
What do you do once you have the Report?
Once you and your former partner read the Report, if you both agree with our recommendation, great: that was the easiest way to resolution you could have wished for.
78% of couples who order a Settlement Report reach an agreement based on the recommendations.
But if not, then you at least have a clear picture of how settlements really work, some explicit analysis and reasoning and some sober objective observation of your facts. And you'll have a clear "ballpark" within which you both know you need to end up in your eventual deal.
That's still a big step forward and in this case, it might be time to move on to a Shuttle Negotiation. There are often many different deals that might work.
So ordering a Settlement Report is a no-lose option - either you do get a deal or you take a big step towards one.
That's still a big step forward and in this case, it might be time to move on to a Shuttle Negotiation. There are often many different deals that might work.
So ordering a Settlement Report is a no-lose option - either you do get a deal or you take a big step towards one.
Ordering
The Settlement Report will save you thousands of dollars in legal fees, and cut out months or even years of delay in you reaching a settlement.
You can order your personal Settlement Report for just $500 +GST (or $250 +GST each if you're splitting the cost). That's less than the two of you would spend in just your first hour with lawyers if you went down that path.
You'll receive your personal Settlement Report within 7 days of providing us your information.
If you're interested in ordering a Settlement Report, just complete the Contact Form on this page.
You can order your personal Settlement Report for just $500 +GST (or $250 +GST each if you're splitting the cost). That's less than the two of you would spend in just your first hour with lawyers if you went down that path.
You'll receive your personal Settlement Report within 7 days of providing us your information.
If you're interested in ordering a Settlement Report, just complete the Contact Form on this page.
Now let's take a look at our other highly effective service...
Shuttle Negotiation
What is Shuttle Negotiation?
Whether your situation is amicable or hostile, mediation produces faster outcomes and superior net financial results at substantially lower cost than the alternatives.
There's more than one style of mediation. We created a particular service we call Shuttle Negotiation.
It works like this:
There's more than one style of mediation. We created a particular service we call Shuttle Negotiation.
It works like this:
- We go and back and forth between you - in a "shuttle" - like a tennis match or badminton.
- You only talk to us - not to your ex.
- There are no face to face meetings.
- All communication is by phone and email.
- Each day we explore different possible "deal" terms, with each of you, finding what you like and dislike, and coming up with proposals or counter-proposals or tweaks.
- All three of us - you, your ex partner and us - commit to communicate each day - responding within a maximum 24 hours.
- We do this over a period of 7 days.
- At the end of 7 days, you either have a result or you don't. If you are close and both want to continue for another 7 days, we do so.
Why It Works
- You have time to think - you're not forced into an on-the-spot decision.
- No stressful face-to-face arguments with your ex, where it's too emotional or you infuriate or intimidate each other.
- You don't communicate directly with your partner - you talk to us. That makes for calm, civilised and courteous discussions, rather than ones that leave you in rage or fear.
- You can float ideas without getting your head bitten off.
- You don't have to get dressed up and drive to our offices.
- It's incredibly convenient: You can be anywhere - in a quiet room at lunchtime at work, in the car, in your kitchen, walking along a beach.
Logical discussions... Open-minded exploration of options... Respectful propositions, requests and counter-proposals... Calm sensible guidance from an experienced mediator... And time to think
Add all those factors and you can see intuitively why Shuttle Negotiation simply works better than all alternatives.
And, Yes, it does work:
Over 85% of our Shuttle Negotiation clients reach agreement.
Two Options
We charge $250 +GST per week for each party, for Email-Only Shuttle Negotiation. Or $500 +GST per week for each of you for Email-Plus-Phone.
Have a Chat
If you'd like to start Shuttle Negotiation, or initially just want to have a chat to learn more, complete the Contact Form on this page and we'll be in touch.
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