Divorce Season

Mediation with families has its own season. Since few families want to move in the dead of winter, most parents put up with conflict until the weather gets nicer. Then they move out and file for divorce. Summer, then, is a time when families try to figure out schedules for school age children and continues busy for mediators with August and the first few weeks of September at a feverish pace working with procrastinators. Thanksgiving and Christmas are usually calm as couples and families try to tough it through family gatherings and then it’s back to too cold to move.

There are exceptions to this pattern, of course. But by and large most families roughly follow the seasons of the year in this fashion, at least in Minnesota where I practice.

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