My firm provides culturally-sensitive, cost-effective, and confidential services in the following practice areas:
- Domestic Relations
- Mediation
- Collaborative Law
- Family Law
- Divorce
- Child Custody
- Child Support
- Child Visitation
- Spousal Support
- Property Division
- Guardianship
- Domestic Violence
My firm offers three alternatives to individuals and families seeking to resolve their differences: Litigation, Mediation, and Collaborative Law.
- Litigation is the traditional approach of filing legal petitions and seeking the court's intervention to resolve legal disputes, an adversarial process that may be necessary under certain circumstances (i.e. domestic violence, psychopathology, criminal conduct).
- Mediation is a confidential, self-determinative, and non-adversarial process in which parties attempt to reach settlement by communicating their respective needs and interests, with the help of a neutral facilitator, and craft creative agreements that are mutually satisfactory.
- Collaborative Law is an interdisciplinary approach where attorneys and parties agree from the outset not to litigate and to involve non-legal professionals (i.e. child specialists, financial planners, divorce coaches) whenever appropriate and necessary to reach settlement.
My philosophy is to minimize litigation and to maximize healing and growth in an effort to mitigate the emotional and financial devastation that invariably results from adversarial proceedings. I believe this is particularly important where children are involved, and I seek to promote and preserve their physical, mental, emotional, psychological, and economic well-being at all times.
My approach is to foster creativity and self-determinism in conflict-resolution since each family's history, dynamics, and cultural realities are unique. Therefore, case management and case resolution for each family must be equally unique and custom-tailored to address the needs, the interests, and the beliefs of all parties involved.