The Legal System and Mediation/Conciliation:

Mediation/conciliation assists parents to make decisions about their children and parenting arrangements, and to avoid lengthy and expensive Court proceedings. Parents are recommended, however, to obtain legal advice throughout the process, to assist them to negotiate from an understanding of how a Court would approach the issue/s. Some parents choose to make the agreement reached in mediation/conciliation conditional upon consulting their solicitor.

A solicitor can convert the agreement reached in mediation/conciliation into a legally binding document.