The financial groundwork for a productive mediation session involves more than gathering account statements. It requires classifying each asset as marital or separate, establishing valuations for assets that are not easily priced, analyzing each spouse's income and earning capacity if alimony is at issue, and identifying the realistic range of outcomes on each contested item. A client who has not done that analysis cannot evaluate the adequacy of a proposed settlement during the session itself — and the opportunity to negotiate is not always available a second time.
Brodzki Jacobs builds the financial framework for each client's mediation before the session, working through the marital estate in sufficient detail that the client understands not just what they own but what each item is worth, how it is likely to be classified under Florida law, and what a reasonable distribution of each looks like. That preparation is the foundation of effective mediation representation.
