Tucson Divorce Mediation

Our Five-Phase Mediation Journey We offer a structured, pay-as-you-go mediation journey tailored to efficiently and affordably resolve disputes related to divorce and separation.

1. Initial Consultation at No Charge Begin with a complimentary session to address your inquiries, receive an estimated timeline and cost breakdown. Discover how our mediation approach significantly reduces time, expenses, and avoids the adversarial nature of traditional court proceedings.

2. Launching the Mediation Your mediator will outline our efficient, cost-saving protocols and guidelines, emphasizing mutual respect, comprehensive disclosure, the welfare of any children involved, and a fair resolution.

3. Understanding Your Situation In this phase, your mediator delves into your specific circumstances, including your primary concerns, objectives for mediation outcomes, educational and professional backgrounds, financial situations, health status, and other relevant details. You and your partner or co-parent will be asked to provide necessary information and documentation to ensure a fair and caring resolution to all issues.

4. Navigating Through Mediation This critical phase offers a supportive environment for you and your partner to engage with our mediator, aiming to resolve all matters at hand. This includes the division of property, allocation of debts, and arrangements for any minor children, child support, and spousal maintenance. Depending on the complexity, mediations can range from 4-6 hours without minor children involved, to 6-8 hours with children. Our mediators, with their rich background in law, psychology, and mediation, guide effective communication and negotiation, present various resolution options, and provide crucial legal, financial, and tax information to support fully informed decision-making.

5. Finalizing the Agreement The final phase confirms that all decisions from the mediation are encapsulated in a legally-binding settlement agreement. All court documents are meticulously prepared, ensuring you and your partner avoid court appearances. Our comprehensive settlement agreements and court documents aim to leave no stone unturned and receive court approval, guaranteeing you maintain control over the process without deferring to attorneys or judges.

Divorce Mediation in Tucson, Arizona

Out-of-Court Solutions in Tucson is proud to offer a highly effective and unparalleled form of divorce mediation. We have been utilizing our skills and experience in law, business and psychology to help legally separating and divorcing couples since 1995. As the foremost mediation firm in Arizona, we make it a priority to ensure that each person has a chance to be heard. Everyone will have an opportunity to express their feelings and concerns and establish their ultimate goals for mediation. Our Tucson mediators will also inform you and your spouse of the legal, financial and parenting particulars involved in your circumstances so that all necessary discussions and negotiations can take place. Once feelings, concerns and goals have been discussed and you and your spouse fully understand the situation, our mediators will help everyone reach a legally binding and durable settlement.

At Out-of-Court solutions in Tucson, we make it a priority to keep everyone on the same page at all times by clarifying the rules and procedures of mediation and establishing a mutual respectful atmosphere. Our mediators will then present you and your spouse with ample time to speak, without interruption, about the situation as you see it as well as the goals you hope to achieve with mediation. Once everyone has spoken and goals have been discussed, our Tucson mediators will guide a discussion of potential alternatives and outcomes and help everyone reach a mutually acceptable resolution. In addition to our mediation services, we will prepare a comprehensive settlement agreement and all required court documents on your behalf. Our mediation and document preparation services will help you save money, time and frustration by avoiding ever having to go to court. At Out-of-Court Solutions in Tucson, we have been able to help over 95% of clients resolve issues quickly, inexpensively and with minimum stress or strain.

For the occasion when most everything has been agreed upon but legally expertise is still needed, Out-of-Court Solutions offers document preparation services with as-needed mediation. Legal documents for legal separation and divorce can be confusing, time consuming and overwhelming but our Tucson office will address all of your concerns and answer any questions to ensure that everyone completely understands the situation and is on the same page. We will also ensure that your documents cover all necessary aspects such as legal issues, financial issues and any minor child-related particulars. Out-of-Court Solutions in Tucson will prepare all necessary documents on your behalf and help you quickly, easily and inexpensively legally separate or 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.

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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.