Northern Community Mediation

Mission: To help people meaningfully resolve conflicts, providing mediation services as an alternative to litigation.

Northern Community Mediation provides services so that the citizens of Charlevoix and Emmet counties can resolve their conflicts through mediation rather than having to go to court. Mediation is a process in which the facilitators (mediators) help the involved parties express their viewpoints and then come up with a solution to their disagreements. In other words, the solution is in the hands of the participants rather than a third party, such as a judge or arbitrator.

NCM offers mediation services for various types of disputes, including:

• Family Services: Divorce, parenting time/visitation, custody, guardianship, domestic matters, grandparenting time, wills, and estates.
• Real Estate/Property: Disputes related to property ownership and transactions.
• Juvenile: Child abuse and neglect, victim-offender cases, first-time offender shoplifting.
• Education: Special education, school attendance, and issues of incorrigibility.
• Breach of Contract: Professional/client, consumer/merchant, employer/employee disputes.
• Community Disputes: Public policy, ordinance/statute, neighborhood issues, and regulation conflicts.