Under any circumstance - and I don't care what state you live in - DO NOT WAIVE YOUR RIGHTS TO COUNSEL OR SIGN ANY DOCUMENT THAT STATES YOU WILL.
The online forms make it sound easy. With a new house, an old house and children in the picture it WON'T be easy. Get your own attny.
Here, in order to go through mediation both parties must retain an attny in order to take back any agreements the mediator facilitated. If the attny doesn't like the agreement and convinces you or your W to go back to mediation it can be a long and expensive process. My attny is also a certified mediator but can't act as both - I know he charges around 350.00 per hour for mediation and that is reasonable when I comparison shopped when I thought we might go that route.
