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“This mediator was so warm and professional! I would recommend her for any future mediations.”
PP
“Thank you for working with my client and helping resolve his dispute. You did a good job in bringing the parties together.”
ME
“Thank you so much, really…I know it’s your profession; however, you made it so very personal and real and treated us as two people going through a hard transition… thank you so much.”
H
As an attorney, you understand that mediation is a critical component of effective litigation strategy and can be especially successful in resolving family law matters outside the courtroom. The right mediator can make a meaningful difference in both the efficiency of the process and the quality of the outcome for your client.
As a mediator, Deborah Beylus understands the need to strike the proper balance between protecting a client’s legal interests and achieving a timely, cost-effective resolution. As a full-time mediator with extensive experience in complex financial matters, she brings added value to attorney-driven mediations by helping parties identify practical, well-reasoned settlement solutions.
Although mediation is significantly more cost-effective than trial, it still represents a meaningful investment when mediator fees, attorney time, and lost work hours are considered. For that reason, selecting a mediator who is well suited to the case is essential to maximizing value and avoiding unnecessary expense.
Not all family mediators are the same. Deborah Beylus brings the experience, credentials, and practical insight attorneys rely on, including:
Deborah provides face-to-face mediation,and online mediation on a secure platform.
She conducts mediations in her office in Boca Raton, or she will travel to your office or a neutral location.Deborah provides a mediation process that puts parents most at ease
Deborah is sensitive to what your client is enduring
Deborah ensures that any power imbalances between parents do not affect the mediation process or influence its outcome
Deborah provides written agreements that are detailed and precise. She is detail oriented and proficient in financial matters,
The key skill of successful mediator is the ability to develop rapport – a relationship of understanding, empathy, and trust – with each of the disputing parties. Rapport encourages parties to communicate fully with the mediator – often providing her with the information she needs to find a mutually acceptable settlement. Rapport is essential to building the trust needed for parties to share their interests, priorities, fears, and weaknesses. This information is often the key to settlement and is one of Deborah’s strengths.
Another key talent of a successful mediator is creativity – the ability to generate novel solutions. Deborah understands each party’s interests in order to generate creative solutions to pending issues. Deborah can help the parties investigate various choices and solutions to these options, while acknowledging feelings, perceptions, and hurts that might otherwise block meaningful and fair resolution.
It is also important that your mediator be patient, giving you and your opponent as much time as you need to fully express emotions and ideas, while at the same time focusing intently on the primary task – dispute resolution. Deborah is tenacious and she doesn’t give up. She settles a majority of her cases and has even settled cases with parties who have claimed they simply didn’t see a way to resolution.
We chose Deborah as our mediator because she took the time to speak with us during an initial consultation and made us feel heard right from the start. It was also a huge plus that her services included court filing, which made the process more streamlined and less stressful. Throughout our meetings, Deborah was generous with her time, patient, and thoughtful. She helped guide us through discussions that led to an outcome both of us felt good about. We’re grateful for her support and would highly recommend her to anyone looking for a fair and compassionate mediator.
“My wife and I have had over 50 years experience working with children and families. We are keenly aware of when individuals do their jobs or when the rare circumstance occurs and people move their level of commitment to a higher level. You have humbled me as you have taken me under your wings and worked to ensure a better quality of life for me and my soon to be ex-wife. Your willingness to hold my hand and walk me through complex issues during an emotional time for us has been extraordinary. I have tears in my eyes as I sit here and thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you have done and helped me to accomplish.”
“I just wanted to thank you for the excellent work you did as it pertains to my divorce from my wife. Your attention to detail really made every aspect of our agreement so much easier to address. I appreciate your efforts to conduct a sound mediation session to assist me in resolving all of our issues so that we can both move on with our lives. My children are fortunate that we are able to work together to raise them without the constant fighting. You helped us iron out a clear schedule and division of responsibilities so we can co-parent. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
