Colorado Divorce Mediation:
Our
Only Business, Our Life’s Work
To begin with — at Divorce Resolutions®,
LLC, Colorado Center for Divorce Mediation™ — Colorado
divorce and family mediation is all we do!
Founded more than twenty (20) years ago, our
mediation service is a rarity among Colorado dispute
resolution service providers. We are privileged to work
full
time and only as divorce and family mediators, and we
aspire to be among the most innovative and the most skilled of
family
mediators anywhere.
our divorce & family
mediation center's reception area,
conference room & mediator's office
Our Unique Professional
Attorney-Mediator Backgrounds
Their backgrounds detailed in the
following section of our website, Meet
Our Divorce Mediators, Larry and
Chris are both uniquely suited —
by personality, and by training and experience — as Colorado divorce
and family mediators.
Both Larry and Chris came to the field of
divorce and family mediation after years of active lawyering
in matrimonial and family cases. As the practice’s founding
mediator, Larry has mediated divorces and parenting disputes
of more than three thousand Colorado couples. As a former
counselor with a Master’s degree in marriage and family
therapy, Chris brings a unique educational background and
work experience to our mission as well; Chris has assisted
more than a thousand Colorado couples in more than seven
years full-time work as a family and divorce mediator.
Both Larry and Chris are licensed Colorado attorneys who now
work exclusively as divorce and family mediators.
Our Comprehensive,
Client-Friendly Mediation Process
Over the many years of our work, Divorce
Resolutions®, Colorado Center for Divorce Mediation™, has
developed a straightforward, complete and client-friendly
process for Colorado divorcing couples (or other couples with parenting
disputes).
A Tour of Our
Mediation Process (a later section of this website) details how
we work with you. In short, however, we make it as simple,
affordable and anxiety free as possible. From a first meeting
with assistance in your determining when and how to file your
Colorado divorce (or parentage) court case, to a final meeting where
you receive a comprehensive package of all documents you need
for delivery or mailing to the Court — we think (and we’re
often told by our clients) it’s straightforward. And, your
costs are minimized accordingly.
Although most of your work will be
directly with your family mediator, Larry or Chris, you'll have the resources and
support of our wonderful client liaison and assistant,
Judy,
as well.
Our Innovative Use of Special Technology and
Tools
To help us provide our clients the
absolute best service at a reasonable cost, we use special
computer and tools in our work. Indeed, we have pioneered and
frequently lectured on (in national as well as at local and
state venues) the creative use of technology in divorce and
family mediation.
By way of example, both Larry and Chris
are proficient in using, and, in fact, work with
FinPlan DivorcePlanner®’s powerful financial planning software on a near daily basis
— to assist our Colorado clients in considering tax and retirement
division concerns. We have other third party and our own
unique planning tools for these purposes as well.
As we will explain in greater detail
later in this website, most clients will desire us to draft
their final mediated settlement. Although every document (as
every family) is unique and reflects the clients’ custom
agreements reached in mediation, we use special and
proprietary document assembly tools developed by us over many
years, to remain efficient and cost-effective in this work as
well.
And, while we pride ourselves on
returning all phone calls promptly, in appropriate
circumstances, we are comfortable communicating with clients,
and exchanging planning tools as you develop them in your
mediation, by electronic mail (for our clients who prefer its
use).
In this regard, our office utilizes a
dedicated T-1 wide area network (with encrypted
hi-gain wireless broadcast) to manage our practice and
permit rapid access to the wealth of client and professional
resources available intra-office and on-line. We continue to
seek new software and hardware solutions allowing us to
provide better and more efficient Colorado divorce and family mediation
services.
 Consistent with this commitment, in 2006, we became
the first
family and divorce mediators in the country to acquire and use large
(37") flat panel television monitors with our clients during
all mediation sessions — to consider and develop divorce
planning options. Both Larry's and Chris' offices and our
conference room are equipped with this important
collaboration tool. These large flat panel monitors immensely
facilitate our developing, considering and
discussing with our clients — during our work together in
mediation — divorce property division, support arrangements, retirement
analysis
and other financial issues, as well as parenting plan and
timesharing scenarios.
For further details of this creative use of large video
monitors in our work as mediators, review our article on
Innovation in Mediation: the Visual Power of Large Video
Displays.
 In
2007, we substantially updated our technology and tools once
again, adding a dedicated server, replacing all mediator |
staff computers (our mediators now use client-side docking
mobile workstations), adding multi-monitor displays and adopting the latest operating
system and office applications. Consider our article on
these changes to improve our efficiency and our clients'
experience in mediation of their divorce:
Denver Divorce Mediators' 2007 Updates to
Technology in Innovation of Family Mediation Process.
Most Importantly, Our
Mediation Clients’ Satisfaction
Divorce Resolutions® has successfully
brought well over two thousand Colorado couples through the
process of mediating their divorce or parenting disputes.
It is highly satisfying work for us. And,
it brings positive feedback. The vast majority of our clients
are left with no doubts that the solutions they reached in
mediation with us were greatly preferable to ones imposed in
litigation: they report that the mediated agreements reached
with Larry or Chris were “workable” and they preserved the
dignity of the participants.
But, don’t
just take our word for it. Consider the praise of our styles
and of our process by our clients:
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“I
would absolutely recommend divorce mediation through
Divorce Resolutions®. Our mediation saved time, money and
agony. You get heard. You speak to each other directly and
all the while you have the benefit of good information,
years of experience and a level head in the midst of
temporary insanity.”
— R.M.
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“Mediation with Divorce Resolutions® is very cost
effective. All issues are presented in a non-threatening
manner. Inequity is resolved gently and using calm logic.
I would highly recommend.”
— D.M.
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“It was nice to be able to settle everything from your
office. Kind of like ‘one stop shopping.’ To me, that
was the greatest feature of using this process and Divorce
Resolutions®.” — A.W.
For further (and more expansive) comments
by our former Colorado divorce and family mediation clients,
please review our website's
More Client Experiences.
For a further discussion of factors to
consider in selecting a family or divorce mediator (and how
we measure up!), consider our
Choosing A Divorce Mediator: 4 Important Questions article. If mediation seems sensible and
compelling, and you choose to work with us in mediation of
your Colorado divorce or parenting matter, next: take a tour
through our unique, comprehensive, client-friendly, innovative
and satisfying mediation process in the following section of
our website,
How
You Work With Us - Our Colorado Divorce Mediation Process.
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