Inheritance & Family Dispute Mediation

Resolving disagreements about inheritance, property, money and family businesses

Not every family dispute concerns divorce or separation.

Arguments over an inheritance, a family property, money or a family business can be particularly difficult because financial and legal issues are often combined with longstanding family relationships and emotions.

Mediation provides a private and confidential environment in which family members can discuss both the practical issues and the wider disagreement and explore whether an agreed solution can be found.

What family and inheritance disputes can be mediated?

Mediation can help with disagreements involving:

  • Wills and estates
  • Inheritance
  • The division or ownership of family property
  • Money and financial arrangements
  • Family businesses
  • Disagreements between siblings
  • Parents and adult children
  • Grandparents and wider family members
  • Other disputes involving family assets or arrangements

Mediation can take place alongside legal advice and can be used whether or not solicitors are already involved or court proceedings have started.

How can mediation help?

Court proceedings may ultimately determine legal rights, but they cannot always address the wider family issues behind a dispute.

Mediation gives family members an opportunity to explain their position, understand the concerns of others and explore more flexible solutions. Where possible, it can also help avoid further damage to family relationships.

The mediator does not decide who is right or impose a settlement. The family members themselves remain in control of whether an agreement is reached.

Talk to us about your family or inheritance dispute

If you are involved in a disagreement about inheritance, property, money, a family business or another issue within the wider family, contact us for an initial discussion about whether mediation might help.

I would like to thank you for the time you have spent in achieving in 4 hours, what we never achieved in 4 months. I think it is by far a much better process than solicitors and court.

I honestly feel that we now have a good chance of proceeding in an amicable way that hopefully in time will become a friendship with the children at its core. I do not think we would have achieved this through solicitors, and feel huge gratitude for your patience and gentleness.

It’s so much better to go through this process together in a calm and neutral setting, rather than being defensive at home or seeing a solicitor individually. You’ve been a great adviser on a tricky topic and the meetings were really productive.

Throughout this whole horrible process we have both felt that the system is designed to leave us hating each other and to have had your support in helping us get to this point has meant a great deal, so thank you for your support of us both and for reflecting everything so well.

Thank you for all you have done to make a very sad and painful process somewhat less painful!

Thanks for all your help. We are talking a lot more and generally getting on much better, we even stood next to each other at rugby AND are going to parents’ evening together!

You did more in 4 hours than our lawyers had done in 1 year. For that I am very grateful.

If you would like to talk through your options or discuss the mediation process, call us on 01892 506906 or fill in the form below.

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