^^^ When retaining the MBR and staying in the marital home, it is much more than a power play dynamic. It should be intended for the sole purpose of your children, your legal rights, and protecting your parental rights and their rights intact. Some of us on here who are quasi-legalistic clearly know this, but personal circumstances and BD sometimes cloud our judgement with emotions, until "the legal game" is really on. By all means use a mediator. The Family Court is a unchecked fictitious racket "court of equity" with no oversight incentivising support orders via federal funding. Check out the movie Divorce Corp. Very eye opening of the family court legal system, how it operates, how it is conflictive with Supreme Court Case Law, and Constitutional Law. Pretty much everything my brother was saying to me for over 18 years as a pro se litigant.
