Supportive Process | Effective Resolution
Practice Areas
(All services are offered virtually)
Pre/Post Nuptial Agreements
Catherine drafts, mediates and reviews pre and post nuptial agreements.
MEDIATION
Catherine mediates with couples who wish to separate or to divorce, but also for those who wish to remain marriaged. Different from discernment counseling, mediation is focused on future action and accountability.
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."
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.
Collaborative Process
The collaborative process is an interdisciplinary team approach where each spouse or partner is represented by a collaboratively-trained attorney and the team is completed by a neutral family specialist/coach, to work on the parenting plan and support each person individually, and a neutral financial professional who gathers financial information and works on budgets and modeling. for the future. Everyone signs a Participation Agreement that states that they are all committed to the collaborative, rather than a litigated, process.
Uncontested Divorce / Legal Separation
Our office can file for an uncontested divorce in a timely and cost efficient manner.
Consulting & Review
Catherine consults on or reviews separation and settlement agreements during the mediation process.
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Canadé Law & Mediation, P.C. Provides:
Child Inclusive Mediation
Catherine is trained as a child inclusive mediator, who will bring the voice of your child (not your child themselves) into the room, and will keep the focus on what is best for them, rather than just for one spouse or partner.
Experienced Team
Catherine works with a team of professionals, including 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 and supported.
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, particularly in the LGBTQ and trans communities where the need to be seen and understood is often greater.
“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.
