Services
We help with these family issues
- Premarital or Cohabitation Agreements
- Paternity, Divorce, and Separation
- Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDRO)
- Post-Decree Modification of Orders
- Estate Planning (Wills, Guardianship, Powers of Attorney, Healthcare Directives)
- Will, Trust, and Probate Administration
- Adult Name Change and Adult Stepfamily Adoption
We provide these services:
Legal Coaching and Consulting
With the Court’s website offering access and forms for all kinds of legal issues, you may only need a bit of help understanding the process and drafting your court pleadings. We are happy to help you “do it yourself” by offering coaching and consulting services on an hourly basis.
Legal Coaching and Consulting can help you:
- Prepare and plan for divorce
- Understand your legal rights and responsibilities
- Draft initial or responsive Court pleadings
- Navigate the paternity, divorce, post-decree, or probate Court process
- Comply with statutes, Court rules, and Court orders
- Prepare for hearings, trial, evaluations, or mediation
- Compile and prepare exhibits and other evidence for trial
- Review and revise settlement agreements or stipulated orders
- Manage a trust or estate as Trustee or Personal Representative
- Perform the tasks of Informal Probate
Mediation
Mediation is a confidential process that allows you to resolve your disputes privately and efficiently. Pamela serves as a neutral facilitator to assist you in reaching agreements that meet everyone’s best interests. As an Advanced Family Mediator (as certified by the Association for Conflict Resolution), Pamela has the experience, training, hands-on skills, and in-depth knowledge necessary to help you untangle even the toughest knots with compassion, confidentiality, and dignity. Mediation is the peaceful way to:
- Create your premarital or cohabitation agreement
- Resolve your separation or divorce
- Address post-decree disputes such as parenting time
- Assist in elder care issues
- Settle family estate problems
Document Preparation
We provide thorough, professional legal documents for clients that are a little-bit-DIY and a little-bit-full-service. If you want your documents created and reviewed by an attorney, we are here to help. In today’s marketplace, you can always find something “cheaper,” but your life events demand something more than that. For modest flat fees, we can help you develop legal documents for your life event that are sustainable, enforceable, and will hold up in Court.
Some of the legal documents we provide include:
- Petition for Dissolution, Legal Separation, Paternity, or Post-Decree Modification
- Response to Petition
- Consent Decree of Dissolution, Legal Separation, Paternity, or Post-Decree Modification
- Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (to divide retirement accounts)
- Estate Planning, including Wills, Guardianship, Powers of Attorney, and Healthcare Directives
- Adult Name Change
- Adult Stepfamily Adoption
Negotiation and Advocacy
If you need assistance coming to settlement in your family dispute, Pamela can help you create comprehensive settlement offers, negotiate disputed terms, interpret past agreements, or draft modifications to existing agreements.
Negotiation can help you resolve:
- Your premarital or cohabitation agreement
- Your paternity, separation, or divorce matter
- Post-decree disputes such as parenting time
- Elder care issues
- Family estate problems