Fee and payment terms · Accessibility

The seminar is a flat fee per parent, payable at registration. Mediation is billed hourly, including preparation and the drafting of any agreement, and is divided equally between the parties unless an order directs otherwise. Parenting coordination is billed hourly against a retainer held for each party and allocated as the order of appointment directs.

Each party is billed separately and receives their own itemised statement showing time by task. No party is told what the other has paid, and non-payment by one party is not reported to the other.

A deposit is taken at scheduling and credited against the session. Cancellation with less than two business days' notice forfeits the deposit unless the cancellation is for a safety reason or a court-ordered change of date.

Where a party is found indigent and the case qualifies, the seminar and mediation are compensated from the Divorcing Parent Education and Mediation Fund under Supreme Court Rule 38 at the rates set by the Administrative Office of the Courts, and that party pays nothing for those services. Parenting coordination is not compensated from that fund.

rate schedule to be inserted before publication — flat seminar fee per parent, hourly mediation rate, hourly coordination rate, retainer amount, and the current PEMF rates

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