Catherine helps families transition through separation and divorce outside of a traditional court process. Through divorce and family mediation or the collaborative process, where the clients shape and determine the results, Catherine assists her clients in achieving resolutions that are workable, affordable and durable, through processes that are far more efficient and cost effective in resolving conflict than working through the court system.
Non-adversarial processes allow couples to take ownership of a conflict and personally shape its resolution to best serve their needs and those of their children without the costs, uncertainty and emotional volatility of the court process.
All services are offered virtually.
Catherine offers a complimentary 20 minute phone conversation to discuss which process might best help you to reach your goals.
Catherine Canadé, Esq.
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Change The Way You Think About Divorce
Supportive Process | Effective Resolution
Practice Areas
Pre/Post Nuptial Agreements
Catherine drafts, mediates and reviews pre and post nuptial agreements.
Family and Marital Mediation / Mediation To Stay Married
Catherine mediates with couples who have stressors in their marriage but may wish to remain married or to proceed to separation or divorce. Different from discernment counseling, mediation is focused on future action and accountability. Catherine facilitates the couple working through options and solutions and the mutually agreed steps forward to attempt to remove the stressors, and if they are unable to do so, shift the goal and process to focus on separation or divorce.
Parenting & Child Support Agreements
Catherine drafts, reviews and mediates for unmarried couples who wish to memorialize their decisions around parenting and decision making as well as child support, which may result in agreements that may be filed in Family Court to be "so ordered."
Collaborative Process
Catherine is experienced in working in the collaborative process, which is an interdisciplinary team approach where each spouse or partner is represented by a collaboratively-trained attorney and a neutral family specialist/coach, who can work on the parenting plan and support each person individually as they move through what can be a very stressful and emotional time in their lives, and a neutral financial professional who works with both parties to gather financial information and work on budgets and projections for the future, reducing the fear of the unknown. Everyone signs a Participation Agreement that states that they are all committed to the collaborative, rather than a litigated, process.
Uncontested Divorce / Legal Separation
Catherine may be able to file an uncontested divorce in a timely and cost efficient manner if there are no children, no future financial obligations between the spouses, and one spouse agrees to sign the divorce papers.
LGBTQ & Non-Traditional Families
Catherine is a proud member of the LGBTQ community and assists LGBTQ, polyamorous, triads and other non traditional families resolve their differences through mediation and drafts separation agreements, settlement agreements, parenting and child support agreements as well as co-habitation agreements to memorialize their agreements that may be filed in court.
Consulting & Review
Catherine consults or reviews separation / settlement agreements during the mediation process.
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Canadé Law & Mediation, P.C. Provides:
Family Focus
Catherine will bring the voice of your child into the room, and will keep the focus on what is best for the whole family, rather than just for one spouse or partner.
Experienced Team
Catherine works with a team of professionals, such as divorce coaches, child specialists, parent coordinators, therapists, financial and tax advisors, trust and estates attorneys, and consulting and review attorneys, who can help provide you with the support and information you need to move forward through the process fully informed.
Supportive Environment
Catherine is responsive and empathetic, and will listen to hear you rather than just listen to answer. Catherine believes wholeheartedly in providing non litigious solutions for families in transition, and especially in the LGBTQ and trans communities.
“Her approach was completely different from anything we had tried before and so thoroughly effective”
— G. B.
“You single-handedly changed my views regarding the law profession”
— C. H.
