Instead of drawing-up legal “agreements” mediators create Memorandums of Understanding (or MOU’s). An MOU is a non-legally binding, written indication of the understandings and resolutions agreed to by the parties over the course of mediation.
The MOU is powerful because it reflects the parties’ own decision on how the matter should best be dealt with. In other words, the MOU is what the parties themselves have negotiated and—with some give and some take by both parties—reflects what they see as the best possible resolution.
In a family mediation, once both parties are satisfied with the MOU each party takes it to their lawyer for review and this MOU, once signed by each parent and each lawyer, becomes the legal parenting agreement.
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