Family disputes

Mediation (facilitating negotiations to resolve a dispute)

Mediation consultation in Kharkiv is a professional legal service aimed at resolving disputes through negotiations, identifying mutually acceptable solutions, and reaching agreements between the parties without court proceedings.

We provide comprehensive legal support at all stages:

  • Preparation for mediation

    The mediator analyzes the circumstances of the conflict, the positions of the parties, the available documents, and the interests of the participants, and prepares a structured framework for negotiations along with rules of interaction to ensure an effective and constructive dialogue.

  • Legal assessment of violations

    An assessment is carried out of the actions or inaction of the parties, as well as the potential legal consequences and risks of the dispute, in order to develop realistic options for out-of-court resolution.

  • Legal support in filing claims

    The mediator organizes and conducts negotiations, facilitates the achievement of mutually acceptable agreements, records the agreed decisions, and ensures compliance with the mediation procedure.

  • Post-settlement support

    Upon completion of the mediation, consultations are provided regarding the implementation of the agreements, formalization of the results, and, where necessary, further legal support for the parties.

Mediation consultation in Kharkiv is a professionally structured process of facilitating negotiations aimed at the amicable resolution of disputes between parties without recourse to court proceedings. Mediation is applied in family, property, contractual, corporate, and other types of disputes where it is important to preserve constructive dialogue, confidentiality, and the parties’ control over the outcome. Conflict situations involving differences in interests, emotional tension, or prolonged disputes may have significant legal, financial, and reputational consequences. Therefore, timely engagement of a mediator is an effective way to objectively assess the positions of the parties and identify mutually acceptable solutions.

By seeking mediation consultation, you receive a professional analysis of the situation, identification of the interests and expectations of each party, and a clear understanding of possible dispute resolution scenarios. The mediator examines the circumstances of the dispute, available documents, prior actions of the parties, and potential risks, helping to establish a foundation for constructive negotiations and voluntary agreements without coercion.

Each mediation process is conducted individually, taking into account the specifics of the conflict, the balance of interests between the parties, and the principles of voluntariness and neutrality. The goal of mediation is to reach a stable and well-considered solution that satisfies both parties, minimizes future conflict, and ensures confidence in the agreements reached.

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Our cases

Termination of parental rights

Enquiry:

His father, a businessman, did not want to be formally deprived of his parental rights and refused to pay child support. He participated in the proceedings through a solicitor and contested the claim.

What we do:

  • A series of reports were prepared and submitted to law enforcement and tax authorities to substantiate the illegal income schemes.
  • We conducted negotiations and ensured that the notarised documents were signed.
  • They drew up a legal strategy and succeeded in getting the father to admit the claim in court.

Result:

The court stripped him of his parental rights, and the child was placed in the care of a guardian who genuinely looks after her.

Case concerning the dissolution of a marriage registered in the UAE

Enquiry:

Such divorces are considered the most complex due to the possibility that the laws of a foreign country may apply, or because it may not be possible at all to hear the case in a Ukrainian court. The wife (our client) wished to divorce her foreign husband, with whom she had several children, all born and registered in various Arab countries. The marriage was registered in the UAE. Ukrainian courts require the original marriage certificate and retain it in the case file, but we did not have the original of this document. The couple had previously lived together in a foreign country, and under international law it was possible to apply the law of a foreign (Arab) state, which the husband sought to do in order to take the children.

What we do:

  • A court in Poltava refused to open proceedings due to the absence of the original marriage certificate and other objections regarding the lack of jurisdiction of the Ukrainian court over the case.
  • We filed for divorce at one of the courts in Kharkiv, having previously had two other cases on behalf of the client heard at the same court (concerning maintenance and determining the children’s place of residence with their mother) and won them.

Result:

We secured a court ruling granting a divorce without the original marriage certificate and in the absence of the respondent (the husband), obtained child support from the father, and established that the child would live with the mother.

Case concerning the termination of parental rights and adoption

Enquiry:

The client lived in a district town and sought to have the father’s parental rights terminated, as he had been absent from the child’s life for many years – he had not been in contact and had provided no support. However, the local child welfare service in that town was sympathetic to the father because they knew his family, who did not want their son to have his parental rights terminated, claiming it would be ‘a disgrace to the whole town’. The local child welfare service refused to assist, and so there was virtually no chance of winning the case in the district court.

What we do:

  • they registered the client in Kharkiv and enrolled her child in a school in Kharkiv; they brought the case before one of the courts in Kharkiv and also involved the Child Welfare Service in Kharkiv,
  • we received a favourable opinion from the Child Welfare Service regarding the appropriateness of terminating the child’s father’s parental rights, and we also obtained a court ruling in our favour,
  • The next step, also in one of the courts in Kharkiv, was the adoption of the child by the client’s husband.

Result:

The child’s ‘legal father’ was his wife’s husband, who had in fact already been fulfilling the role and duties of a father.