Glendale Divorce Mediation

Divorce Mediation | Glendale, Arizona

Divorce Mediation & Legal Separation Mediation Services in Glendale, Arizona. In Glendale, Arizona, our firm stands out for offering specialized mediation services led by mediators with comprehensive backgrounds in both legal and psychological disciplines. This unique expertise positions us to assist couples going through divorce, legal separation, or facing co-parenting challenges. We enable our clients to make decisions that are both informed and considerate of their emotional well-being, encourage productive communication and negotiation, and explore various avenues for dispute resolution. Our team also focuses on providing essential insights into legal, financial, and tax implications, all while working to mitigate the emotional distress often associated with these life transitions. Once an agreement is reached, our mediators meticulously draft a legally binding settlement document and prepare

Contact Information
Address: 20325 N. 51st Ave., Suite 134, Glendale, AZ 85308
Phone: (480) 315-8882
Business Hours (By Appointment Only)
  • Monday:9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Tuesday:9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Wednesday:9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Thursday:9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Friday:9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Saturday:Closed
  • Sunday:Closed
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Our Customized Five-Step Mediation Strategy Our mediation strategy is tailored to address divorce and separation disputes in Glendale, Arizona, with an emphasis on efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

1. No-Cost Initial Consultation Your mediation journey begins with a complimentary session aimed at answering your queries, offering a detailed projection of time and costs, and highlighting how our mediation method can significantly reduce both time and expenses compared to traditional courtroom proceedings.

2. Initiating Mediation At this stage, your mediator introduces our streamlined protocols and guidelines designed to foster mutual respect, ensure complete transparency of information and documents, prioritize the interests of any children involved, and achieve a balanced resolution of all matters.

3. Understanding Your Circumstances This critical step involves an in-depth exploration of your situation. Your mediator will gather insights into your concerns, objectives for the mediation outcome, educational and professional histories, financial conditions, health issues, and any other pertinent details. Both parties will be required to provide all necessary information and documents to navigate towards a resolution that is fair, economically sensible, and compassionate.

4. Facilitating the Mediation Dialogue This phase provides a safe and supportive setting for both parties to work with our mediator to address and resolve all issues, including property division, debt allocation, and arrangements for minor children, child support, and spousal maintenance. Depending on the presence of minor children, sessions may last between 4 to 8 hours. Our mediators leverage their extensive knowledge in law, psychology, and mediation to facilitate effective communication and negotiation, propose various resolution options, and provide vital legal, financial, and tax information to ensure all decisions are thoroughly informed.

5. Concluding with a Comprehensive Settlement Agreement The final phase solidifies all decisions made during the mediation into a legally-binding settlement agreement. All court documents are accurately prepared to spare you and your partner the necessity of court appearances. Our all-encompassing settlement agreements and court documents are meticulously designed to address every detail, ensuring court approval and allowing you to maintain control over the process, thereby eliminating the need to rely on attorneys or judges.

Divorce Mediation in Glendale, Arizona

Out-of-Court Solutions is the premier mediation firm in Arizona and has been providing matchless divorce mediation services to Glendale since 1995.  Our mediators use their backgrounds in law, business and psychology to help legally separating and divorcing couples establish a well-rounded understanding of their situation and all of the legal, financial, and parenting complexities involved.  Our Glendale team of mediators will guide you through the discussions and negotiations that result in a legally binding settlement while fostering an atmosphere of mutual respect and ensuring that everyone’s feelings, concerns and desired goals are heard.

Mediation Services

Out-of-Court Solutions in Glendale works hard to make sure that everyone stays on the same focused on the same issues and goals by walking you through all of the rule and procedures of mediation.  Our highly effective mediation process will allow each person the opportunity to speak, without interruption, about the circumstances as they see it.  Once each person has been heard and the goals they hope to achieve through mediation have been clarified, our mediators will help everyone find a mutually beneficial resolution.  Our team of mediators in Glendale will work to help you save time, money and frustration by preparing a detailed settlement agreement and appropriate court documents.  Out-of-Court Solutions in Glendale will help you avoid ever having to go to court and has helped over 95% of clients resolve issues quickly, inexpensively and with as little stress or strain as possible.

At Out-of-Court Solutions in Glendale we not only provide mediation services, we offer document preparation services as well.  There are times when most things are already agreed upon but you still need assistance with some of the legal or financial aspects of legal separation or divorce.  Many people have questions, concerns or need assistance preparing court required divorce documents and at Out-of-Court Solutions in Glendale we will help answer those questions and address concerns as well as prepare all of your legal documents on your behalf.  We will ensure that all of your legal documents are in order and that they cover all necessary items such as legal, financial and care of any minor children.  Out-of-Court Solutions in Glendale will help your prepare all of your documents so that you can quickly, easily and inexpensively legally separate or get a divorce in Arizona.

Legal Separation

Legal separation ends community property rights and obligations but preserves the marital relationship. For example, when legally separated, each spouse’s income is his or her sole and separate property, and one spouse can no longer obligate the other for any debt he or she incurs. Divorce, on the other hand, (whether in Arizona or in any other state) ends the marital relationship as well as community property rights and obligations.

Mediation of legal separation occurs in the same way and typically involves the same issues as divorce mediation. Couples work together with a professional mediator to reach agreements concerning division of assets (such as real estate, investment accounts, and retirement benefits), allocation of debts, child and/or spousal support, and parenting arrangements for minor children.

Stop Litigating, Start Mediating

It’s never too late to stop the increased hostility and substantial cost of litigating with adversarial lawyers. With his 20+ years as a professional divorce mediator and backgrounds in law and psychology, regardless of the status of your court case there is a 95% probability that our Mediator will help you completely resolve your matter quickly and expensively.

We offer a free consultation where we answer your questions, detail how our mediation process works and give you a written time and cost estimate.

Change Child Support Amount

We make it easy to change a previously ordered child support amount through our flat-fee Child Support Modification program.

  • Step One: You complete our Information Form and Fee Agreement.
  • Step Two: We email our easy to use Questionnaire for you and your ex-spouse to complete and return to us.
  • Step Three: We prepare all required Court Documents.

Optional Mediation: If there are any disagreements between you and your ex-spouse, our Mediator facilitates settlement of them on a pro-rated hourly fee basis.

Change Custody, Child Support, Time-Sharing, and/or All Other Child-Related Matters

We make it easy to change child support, custody, time-sharing, and/or any other minor child-related matters.

  • Step One: You complete our Information Form and Fee Agreement.
  • Step Two: We email our easy to use Questionnaire for you and your ex-spouse to complete and return to us.
  • Step Three: We prepare all required Court Documents.

Optional Mediation: If there are any disagreements between you and your ex-spouse, our Mediator facilitates settlement of them on a pro-rated hourly fee basis.

Coparenting Flat Fee Program

We make it easy for unmarried parents to resolve all custody, child support and other child-related Coparenting matters quickly and inexpensively.

  • Step 1: After you complete our Intake Form and Fee Agreement, we prepare and email you and your co-parent the court documents required to begin to establish parental rights and responsibilities.
  • Step Two: We email you and your co-parent our easy to use Questionnaire that you and your co-parent can complete either together or separately, and then email back to us.
  • Step Three: We prepare a legally binding comprehensive Coparenting Agreement plus all required final court documents.
Oliver Ross, JD*, PhD

Oliver Ross, JD*, PhD founded Out-of-Court Solutions Inc. in 1995 and has since mediated over 2,500 divorce, family, and prenuptial matters. He also originated the Situational™ approach to mediation, an advanced method for mediating disputes quickly, caringly, and inexpensively.Dr. Ross is a select member of the Maricopa Superior Court Family Mediation roster. He has also achieved the prominent status of Advanced Practitioner Member of the National Association for Conflict Resolution in divorce, family and workplace matters, and from 2005-2006 was president of the Arizona chapter.Oliver is uniquely qualified as a mediator. He was a trial attorney for nineteen years and is still licensed to practice law in *California only; he operated a family-owned business for five years, and earned a Master’s degree in clinical psychology in 1992 and a Doctorate in behavioral psychology in 1994.Oliver has conducted numerous workshops and conflict resolution trainings for family law practitioners, business enterprises, nonprofit organizations, and governmental agencies. Dr. Ross’s book, Situational Mediation: Sensible Conflict Resolution, has received wide acclaim.Out of court solution also specializes in family mediation services in the phoenix arizona area.

  • Since 1995: Mediated over 2500 Arizona Divorces and Legal Separations
  • Select Member: Maricopa County Superior Court Family Mediation Roster
  • Past President: Maricopa County Association of Family Mediators
  • Founding Member: Academy of Professional Family Mediators
  • Author: Situational Mediation, Sensible Conflict Resolution (2003)
  • Educator: Trained 32 Arizona Attorneys in Situational™ Mediation
  • Certified Licensed Document Preparer: Arizona
  • JD Degree: California* Licensed Lawyer
  • BA Degree: Accounting
  • MA Degree: Clinical Psychology
  • PhD Degree: Behavioral Psychology
Kimberlee Handy, Esquire

Kimberlee Handy utilizes her backgrounds in law, psychology, and family development to help divorcing or legally separating clients mediate their differences and reach their goals quickly, caringly, and inexpensively. Kimberlee’s years of experience in mediation greatly enhances a mediating couple’s ability to effectively and efficiently divide property, allocate debts, develop a parenting plan for any minor children, and devise appropriate support amounts.

Kimberlee is dedicated to providing mediating couples with personalized and professional problem-solving options and alternatives. She will do everything possible to make clients feel valued and respected while keeping them on track towards their goals.

Kimberlee is also “Of Counsel” to Out of Court Solutions. She is responsible for keeping all of Out of Court Solutions’ mediators and staff up to date on family law and ethical matters.

Ms. Handy is a member of the State Bar of Arizona, the Maricopa County Bar Association, the Maricopa County Association of Family Mediators – Ethical Chair, and the Central Arizona Estate Planning Council. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Arizona Summit Law School (formerly Phoenix School of Law), and her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in Psychology with a Minor in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University.

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Phone No:
(480) 315-8882
Email Address:
[email protected]
Mailing and Delivery Address:

8350 E Raintree Dr #205, Scottsdale, AZ 85260