I am listed by the Tennessee Supreme Court as a Family Law Mediator.
This means that I have attended specialized training in helping parties reach
agreements with respect to divorce or post-divorce issues.
Tennessee has recently begun requiring parents who are divorced or
divorcing and who are unable to resolve their differences through a less
formal method to attempt to mediate their dispute. Mediation
allows for parties to formulate a plan which they then mutually agree to
abide. This prevents the court from imposing rules which neither party
may like.
The most common issue I mediate relates to differing ideas with respect to
the upbringing of the parties' child or children. I assist parents to
establish proper parenting rules or draft a co-parenting plan which will help
them provide for their child or children. This type of mediation can assist
parents who are currently going through a divorce or parents who after going
through a divorce continue to have difficulties with appropriate and
consistent parenting.
While my office is in Blount County, Tennessee, I also serve as family
mediator for all courts in Knox, Loudon, Monroe or Roane County, Tennessee.
A mediator does not force his or her "solution" to the
co-parenting issues of parents. Mediators are prohibited from giving
legal advice or even continuing to try to resolve the parents' dispute if
either of the parents indicate that they no longer want to attempt to resolve
their issues out of court.
While it is common for attorneys not to attend with their clients, no
agreement is binding until all attorneys have approved the mediated agreement.
Post-
Divorce Issues
