Ready for Summer Fun with Your Kids?

It’s Summer and it’s time to do Stuff with your kids. If you are not happy in your adult relationship and want to leave, please consider mediation. Bickford Mediation can often do a quicker, easier, less expensive separation, divorce or co-parenting arrangement than fighting it out in court with two attorneys. Plus you end up…

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Time to Separate?

It has been a long hard winter, especially with the pandemic. We are all stressed. But things may be nearing the end of the pandemic and spring is starting to pop out. I saw my first robin this week. A Mediator Who Can Help It continues to be a stressful time if your relationship is…

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Planning a Divorce? Try Divorce Mediation!

Why Divorce Mediation?’ Planning a Divorce? Try Divorce Mediation. Even though it is not easy to separate, Divorce Mediation so important in planning a divorce? It’s the cheapest most effective way to get things settled for many folks. It’s almost Memorial Day. Soon restaurants in Minnesota are soon to open up. Time to get that…

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CoronaVirus Blog II-Divorce Mediation (Emergency Self Divorce Mediation)

What do you do if you are stuck at home during the CoronaVirus “Staycation” and you have problems with your ex? This is “self-Divorce Mediation.” This also works for current spouses. The best Divorce Mediation or any Mediation is peaceful. Stay calm or calm down fast. Did you know that if you start getting worked…

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Nearing the End? Divorce Mediation and Child Custody Mediation Can Help!

It has been a long winter. These winters can wear on relationships, especially, if the fabric of your relationship was wearing thin even before the winter. How does a relationship wear out? Well, first, when partners stop talking, stop trying to work things out, problems can arise. Maybe you’ve tried to get your counselor to…

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Divorce Mediation with Kids

Handling divorce even without children is not easy, but having children involved makes it twice as difficult. Without children, courts are mainly concerned with division of assets. With children courts are interested in children’s welfare also: will each parent’s household have enough money to meet the needs of the children? Will each parent have the…

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Spring Cleaning? Maybe It’s Time for Divorce Mediation.

Despite the snowflakes yesterday, spring is coming to Minnesota! It’s the time of year when many choose to do spring cleaning of their houses and yards. It’s also a time when folks have more energy to “move on” in their personal lives. If you are moving on into divorce, consider divorce mediation: it’s better for…

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More Divorce Mediation Issues

The hardest part of divorce mediation issues is that what is an issue to one partner or parent or spouse may not be to the other. But it is precisely because one person has a problem that the other person doesn’t acknowledge that leads to a breakdown in a relationship. Divorce mediation can help with…

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