Family Mediation

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 imposition by a court of 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.