APFM Panel: Financial Issues in Mediation

It is challenging for both mediators and their clients to analyze and understand diverse approaches to financial decision-making. In the mediation process, a trained financial expert can enhance the disclosure process and the dimensions of financial issues to be more inclusive, accurate, and supportive in reaching a successful settlement. Diversity enhances creativity and encourages the search for novel information and perspectives, leading to better decision-making and problem-solving. This presentation will offer a step-by-step roadmap of how a financial expert collaborates closely with a mediator, moving from the basics to highly nuanced topic areas. The interplay of expertise between mediator and financial expert is a dance that needs choreography and subtlety to allow each partner to lead while following the other. This is how we do it!