Family Mediation Kent

Family Mediation in Kent

Family mediation in Kent is a fixed-fee, out-of-court process where a trained, FMC-registered mediator helps separating and divorcing couples and parents agree arrangements for their children and finances — an agreement a solicitor can then make legally binding — without going to court. BookMIAM provides this online across Kent, by secure video call, on fixed fees (MIAM £125 per person).

Kent is a big, spread-out county, and driving an hour each way to a mediation office, twice, is the last thing anyone needs mid-separation. Doing it online removes that entirely. Mediation is voluntary and confidential, it keeps the decisions in your hands rather than a judge’s, and it is almost always quicker and less expensive than court.

Your Family Mediator

Your mediator is Abdul Wahid, an FMA trained and Family Mediation Council registered family mediator with more than 10 years of experience. That registration matters, and court forms that let you make a family court application in England and Wales are signed by a fully accredited FMC mediator working with our practice.

What Mediation Can Sort Out

• Child arrangements: living arrangements, shared time, holidays, schooling and handovers.
• Finances on divorce: the family home, savings, pensions, debts and maintenance.
• Property and assets for unmarried couples who are separating.
• Updating an arrangement that used to work but no longer does.

What Family Mediation Costs in Kent

Because every session is online, the fees are the same wherever you live in Kent:

• MIAM: £125 per person, the individual first meeting.
• Mediation session: £180 per person for a 90-minute joint session.
• Court certificate: £40, if a court application needs one.

If your case involves children, you may be entitled to £500 towards mediation under the government scheme, see our £500 family mediation voucher guide.

If You Do End Up in Court

Most couples reach agreement without it. If you cannot and an application becomes necessary, a Kent case would usually be handled at a family court serving the county, such as Maidstone or Canterbury. The court expects you to have attended a MIAM before it will accept most C100 or Form A applications, and that MIAM is the first step of mediation anyway.

How Online Mediation Works

1. Attend a MIAM: each of you has a separate first meeting by video call.
2. Agree to mediate: if you both want to continue, we arrange the first joint session.
3. Work through it: most families are done in one to four sessions.
4. Record the agreement: you receive a written summary a solicitor can turn into a binding order.

Prefer not to be on the same call as your ex-partner? We can use shuttle mediation, where the mediator moves between two separate video calls.

Areas We Cover in Kent

As everything is held by video call, we work with families throughout Kent, including Maidstone, Canterbury, the Medway towns of Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester, plus Dartford, Gravesend, Ashford, Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks, Folkestone and Margate.

Related Guides

• What Is a MIAM?
• How Mediation Works
• Child Arrangements
• Divorce Mediation
• Mediation vs Court

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Family Mediation Across the UK

Every session is online, so we help families nationwide. Explore family mediation by area: Family Mediation Services, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Surrey, Kent and Bristol.