What do you do when couples ask you to act as their mediator and they’re not going to hire lawyers?

I would tell them that I would be happy to mediate their case and give them a letter stating what they agreed to, but they’re going to have to have somebody draft it. Somebody should get a lawyer to draft it because I can’t do that.

With 30 years of experience in family law, Laura M. Urbik Kern is a certified mediator and family lawyer who concentrates on dissolution, family and juvenile law, child support, and complex domestic relations cases.