Unfortunately, there is also a risk in turning domestic mediation over to psychologists and other nonlawyer mediators. While normally very helpful when it comes to disputes around child custody and visitation, many of these people do not know enough law to flag situations in which an unsophisticated spouse is
willing to give up fundamental rights without sufficient
knowledge of what these rights really are. Probably the best way to find a genuinely good mediator is to talk to people working in the field and then to get and carefully check references. A nonprofit, community-based mediation group in your area is probably a good place to get a referral, even if they don’t handle the type of problem you are concerned with.
