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Family Law Mediation, Prenuptial Agreements and Consulting Advice
Resolve divorce, parenting and financial disagreements. Prepare or review a prenuptial or postnuptial agreement. Get individual legal advice before making an important decision.
In mediation, Scott is neutral and represents neither spouse. As a consulting attorney, he advises one person. The role is defined before the work begins.
Parenting and your children’s needs.
Work out a plan that fits school, work, holidays and the realities of two households.
Parenting plan mediation
Create clear arrangements for schedules, holidays, exchanges, communication and decisions. Scott and Mary Levin, Co-Parenting Specialist®, help parents turn good intentions into a workable plan.
Child custody mediation
Address disagreements about parenting time or decision-making. You can seek help whether you are divorcing, already separated or unmarried parents.
Your home, property and support.
Understand the numbers and compare proposals before deciding what each household will keep, receive or pay.
Property and asset division
Work through the house, accounts, business interests, stock compensation and debts. Scott combines legal analysis and financial modeling to help both spouses understand their options.
Retirement accounts and pensions
Identify the interests being divided, compare sharing benefits with other settlement options, and address payment timing, survivor benefits and the division documents.
Child support mediation
Review income and parenting-time assumptions, understand the guideline calculation and work through support and shared expenses.
Spousal support mediation
Negotiate support with attention to each household’s needs, available income, payment structure and future changes.
Divorce and separation, with a path to agreement.
Divorce mediation
Resolve parenting, support and property together. Scott guides the negotiations, drafts your settlement agreement and prepares and files the agreed court paperwork within the engagement.
Co-mediation with Scott and Mary
Bring legal, financial and co-parenting perspectives into the same process when parenting and communication need focused attention alongside the settlement.
If you are deciding how to approach a divorce, compare mediation with litigation before choosing a service.
If you each want your own attorney in a structured settlement process, explore collaborative divorce. Scott represents one spouse in that separate role; each spouse has their own collaborative attorney.
If circumstances have changed after divorce, post-divorce mediation may help address a parenting or support issue.
Agreements before or after marriage.
Discuss protection, expectations and the financial life you intend to build together.
Prenuptial agreements
Plan your financial future before marriage. Scott drafts prenuptial agreements, reviews agreements for individuals, and mediates terms with couples.
Postnuptial agreements
Clarify financial arrangements during marriage. Scott drafts postnuptial agreements, reviews agreements for individuals, and mediates terms with couples.
A closer look before you agree.
Advice for one person
Your own consulting attorney
Get individual advice before starting divorce, during mediation with someone else, or before signing. Scott reviews your questions, proposals or draft agreement within a defined scope.
Focused financial analysis
Divorce Financial Consulting (CDFA®)
Compare the financial effect of settlement options: taxes, available cash, housing costs, retirement income and longer-term needs. The engagement defines who Scott is assisting and the work involved.
Not sure which service fits?
Tell us what is happening and the decision you are facing. A free consultation can help identify the appropriate service and next step. Explore Scott’s family law mediation and consulting services.
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