Carole Sawyer as Your Family Mediator

12/9/2013

Carole's family law mediation experience:

She has conducted more than 500 family law mediations in parenting matters, children's care arrangements, and property settlements
She has conducted child-inclusive mediations, where a child psychologist provides feedback during the mediation to the parents, after having spent time with the children to determine how they are coping with the separation and current parenting arrangements
She has conducted over 100 Residential Tenancy conciliations
She has conducted over 100 QCAT mediations

Carole's family mediation certifications and qualifications:

She is registered as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner with the Department of the Federal Attorney-General, pursuant to the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth)

She is a nationally accredited mediator under the Australian Mediation Association
He has a Bachelor of Laws, with electives in mediation

Carole's flexibility in the process of family mediation:

She provides face-to-face mediation, lawyer-assisted mediation, and shuttle mediation where the parents are in two different rooms
She conducts mediations in Brisbane's CBD, Eight Mile Plains, Milton, and Varsity Lakes on the Gold Coast

Carole's professionalism, understanding and courtesy:

She is aware of what separated and divorced parents are enduring
She provides a mediation process that places parents most at ease
She ensures that any power imbalances between parents do not affect the mediation process or influence its outcome

Carole's legal skill as a university law lecturer in writing agreements with precision:

She provides written agreements that are detailed and precise
She writes mediation agreements in the same manner as Draft Consent Orders, thereby saving parents the legal costs of having to convert informal mediation agreements into Draft Consent Orders

François Mercier