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Lakes Mediation. We mediate around family dispute issues and child access arrangements in Liverpool and the North West. We help couples work out arrangements around divorce and separation.
Call our team on 01539 644 002
In Liverpool, many families face challenges relating to separation, child arrangements, financial matters, and communication issues. Mediation offers a positive alternative to court, giving families a place to talk openly and reach clear agreements with professional guidance.
Lakes Mediation is proud to support families across Liverpool and the wider Merseyside region, an area known for its maritime history, cultural heritage, and strong community identity. With over 1.4 million residents, Merseyside blends urban vibrancy with coastal towns, historic ports, and thriving suburban communities.
Our mediation services extend across all five metropolitan boroughs of Merseyside, providing accessible, supportive conflict resolution for families, workplaces, and communities throughout the region.
Lakes Mediation is proud to support families across Liverpool and the wider Merseyside region, an area known for its maritime heritage, cultural influence and strong community identity. Home to over 1.4 million people, Merseyside brings together busy urban districts, coastal towns, suburban neighbourhoods, and historic port communities, all of which shape the needs of families across the area. Liverpool is world-renowned for its culture, music, architecture, football clubs and revitalised waterfront. It remains one of the UK’s most dynamic and diverse communities.
Our mediation service covers the whole of Liverpool City Region, ensuring accessible, friendly and confidential mediation wherever families live or work. Serving areas in and around Birkenhead, St Helens, Kirkby, Bootle and Crosby.
Lakes Mediation Liverpool provides professional and empathetic family mediation services, assisting families in Liverpool and across the North West to resolve disputes around separation, divorce, children, and financial matters without the need for court proceedings.
Lakes Mediation is committed to offering a constructive and collaborative path forward, providing several key benefits:
Experienced and Accredited Mediators: The service is delivered by a team of highly-skilled and accredited family mediators specialising in conflict resolution.
Comprehensive Service: They cover a range of family issues, including:
Child Arrangements (Child Contact, Parental Alienation)
Financial Matters (Property division, Pensions, Spousal and Child Maintenance)
Grandparent arrangements.
Focus on Control and Cost-Effectiveness: Mediation empowers you to retain control over the decisions affecting your family, which often results in a quicker, less stressful, and significantly less expensive resolution than going to court.
Confidential and Impartial: Sessions are confidential, and the mediator remains neutral, ensuring a respectful environment where all parties feel heard.
Convenience: Services are offered in Liverpool (Merseyside) and can often be conducted online, providing flexibility to work around your schedule and mediate from a location where you feel comfortable.
Lakes Mediation is a provider of Legal Aid for family mediation in the UK.
What is Legal Aid? Legal Aid is a form of government financial assistance intended to help individuals who are unable to afford the cost of mediation, particularly if they have disputes over child arrangements, finances, or property following separation or divorce.
Eligibility: To qualify, you must meet certain financial criteria, usually related to low income or the receipt of specific benefits.
How to Check: Lakes Mediation can assess your eligibility for Legal Aid during your initial meeting (a MIAM). If you qualify, the cost of the initial meeting and your mediation sessions may be fully funded.
Other Financial Support: If you do not qualify for Legal Aid, you may still be eligible for the Family Mediation Voucher Scheme (currently offering up to £500 towards joint mediation costs for child-related disputes), which your mediator can discuss with you.
Family mediation is a structured, voluntary process designed to help you and the other party reach mutually agreed-upon solutions:
Mediation Information and Assessment Meeting (MIAM): This is the mandatory first step before applying to court for most issues concerning children or finances. It is a one-on-one, confidential meeting with a mediator to:
Explain the mediation process and assess if it is suitable for your situation.
Determine if you are eligible for Legal Aid or the Mediation Voucher Scheme.
Assess for any safety concerns (e.g., domestic abuse).
Joint Mediation Sessions: If both parties agree to proceed after the MIAM, a series of joint sessions (in person or online, sometimes via ‘shuttle’ if you prefer to be in separate rooms) are arranged. The mediator facilitates open, honest, and constructive dialogue.
Documenting the Agreement: If an agreement is reached, the mediator will draft documents such as a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and an Open Financial Statement (OFS).
Legal Advice and Final Order: These documents are not legally binding on their own. You are strongly advised to seek independent legal advice on the proposals. Your solicitor can then draft these proposals into a formal Consent Order for the court to approve, making the agreement legally enforceable.
We offer mediation hubs around the North West. Family Mediation, Legal Aid Mediation.
Strictly by Appointment Only. Location is not staffed.
Mediation and urgent MIAM appointments can be arranged online
Our Liverpool Hub – Find us at
17 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP
Call our team to book your mediation on 01539 644 002.
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