FDRP INTAKE (60I Certificate)

If you are in a pre-filing parenting matter, you will often require a 60i Certificate to commence parenting proceedings in Court, and you will need an FDRP to undertake this process. Christina Lam or Stephanie Azzi who work through Myra Aris & Co provide this service.

To undertake Family Dispute Resolution, you are required to go through an intake process with an FDRP. The intake process is a 30-minute to 45-minute process where you speak with the FDRP in private and without the other party.  

The cost of that is $330.00 (GST incl) per party.  

If you and the other party have agreed to undertake this process, we will generally issue invoices to each of you.  

At times, people seek to undertake the FDRP process without consulting the other party - this means that if you are undertaking this process, we will conduct an intake with you and then reach out to the other party.  

We do not generally get involved in the mediation of fees between parties, and so, if there is no agreement to meet costs, we are only able to undertake the FDRP process if our fees are secured, and we will look to the party engaging us to meet these costs. 

If you wish to have two mediators (one FDRP and one non-FDRP) involved in the mediation process, we offer this at no extra cost - we call this tandem mediation.

Tandem mediation is offered where a client feels the qualities of two different mediators would assist in dealing with the dynamics of a dispute. We find this works especially well in the following types of mediation:

1. Multi-party mediation;
2. Parenting and property mediation;
3. Mediation involving allegations of serious violence or poor mental health and other risk.