How Remote Divorce & Family Mediation Works
A structured, neutral remote process for divorce and family transitions across distance.
With more than 20 years of experience as a professional mediator, Heidi Cochrane helps participants organize the practical financial, household, logistical, and family questions they wish to discuss—beginning with the questions that matter most in a divorce or changing family structure.
Participants may join from different places, including across regions or countries, when remote participation is suitable and within the practice’s professional scope.
A clear, voluntary sequence
1. A consultation
Participants can ask general questions about the process, remote participation, and whether a voluntary neutral conversation may be suitable.
2. A focused discussion
The participants identify the topics they want to discuss. The mediator supports an orderly, respectful conversation without taking sides.
3. Customized participant-led arrangements
Participants remain responsible for their own decisions. By shaping a customized agreement directly, they can take ownership of both the process and the outcome.
What the process is designed to support
Mediation can give participants a place to explore the practical realities of divorce and family transition: establishing two independent households, discussing assets, debts, support-related expenses, business or retirement context, and then addressing family arrangements where they apply.
The purpose is not to impose an outcome, but to help participants consider workable options together. This participant-led approach can support a more cost-conscious and amicable resolution that better serves financial and emotional well-being and, where children are concerned, a more positive future relationship.
For participants navigating divorce or structural or practical changes to their family, the conversation may begin with household budgets, assets and debts, retirement or business context, support-related expenses, and the realities of establishing two households. Where relevant, it can also include parenting schedules, holidays, travel across regions or borders, and school, medical, or religious logistics. The mediator does not advise how law applies or determine the legal result of any topic.
Participants may also use mediation to discuss modifications to prior arrangements or agreements when circumstances change—for example, after a relocation, job or income change, business development, housing change, new caregiving responsibilities, or a schedule that no longer works.
Important professional limits
Remote Family Mediation provides neutral mediation and process facilitation only. It does not provide legal advice or representation, determine legal rights, obligations, or remedies, select a legal forum, or appear for anyone in court or before an agency.
Prepared by Heidi Cochrane, Founder and Principal Mediator
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Last reviewed: September 29, 2026
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