I'd like to discuss preparing for mediation. My name is Brian L. Jackson. I am an Oklahoma father’s rights attorney here with dads.law, where fathers are not disposable. I want to talk to you about how to get ready for mediation.

So your attorney told you you're scheduled for mediation and have little to no experience with the court system, so you have no idea what that means. How do you prepare? What do you need to know? Well, we're going to talk about that today.

So, to start with, I want to talk about what mediation is and what it's not. Mediation is basically like a refereed settlement conference. And settlement is the key point here. The idea is to try to reach a compromise on your case, depending on your issues.

So you may be talking about money and support payments like child support or alimony, property division, child custody, and visitation. All that stuff can be on the table, depending on what is at issue in your case.

That's what ... and the goal of mediation is to take whatever your disagreements are, in terms of you and your child's mother or your ex-wife, as the case may be, work out your differences so you can close up your case. That's what mediation is intended to do: try to compromise and settle your case.

What mediation is not, it is not a place to try to settle personal relational grievances. For example, things like who cheated on who, who was disrespectful to who, and who needs to be punished by the court.

That is not a topic for mediation. It is not a place to argue about who's right either. The mediator is not going to care, and they don't have any power to do anything about that other than they can make suggestions on how to resolve problems. But mediation is not a place to try to punish your spouse or your baby mamma, or whatever. It's a place to try to work out your differences amicably.

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