The mediator I selected IS a practicing familiy lawyer.
Obviously, I'll have a L review the agreement (required by law here). I'll see if there is someone good that doesn't ask for a huge retainer. Hourly. Spend a few hundy to "set up my position". It's been the friends I know that have referred me to LLB friends that have educated me this far for free.
The only way this will work out to my benefit is without L vs L. A smarmy lawyer will have her digging into joint equity to run her case. Leave us with nothing to fight over. And that equity is legally protected for me IF I DO THIS RIGHT.
One lawyer. Joint use. 8G total cost. Mediators like F^irway are not lawyers and pretty useless. That's who we went to first. I didn't like it when I knew more about D than he did.
