Lynn has been excellent at making decisions that are in the best interest of my daughter. She has been able to handle the high conflict relationship between myself and my ex-husband. I very much recommend Lynn's services.

Lynn has been a parenting consultant for many years. She has worked with hundreds of families who are very satisfied with her work. She has a wonderful sense of humor and is very warm-hearted. She works with both parents to learn about whatever concerns they may have. Lynn is very ethical. She has been recognized on a professional basis in a number of different ways and is well known within the family law community as a sincere, thoughtful and attentive parenting consultant. Her primary consideration is always what is best for the children and what will assist them in growing up in a good, healthy environment while having a good healthy relationship with both parents.

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Lynn's expertise in the field of navigating High Conflict Divorce cases and helping families is like nothing I have seen in almost a decade of constant court professionals assigned to us. She is THE ONLY ONE who will stand by a parent to seek what is in the best interest for a family and the children involved. Because she doesn't quit (like the many others I have had appointed to work with us) she gets attacked by the angry clients who are seeking revenge. If you are suffering from a Narcissistic Ex THIS is the lady you want to work with!!

Lynn is a horrible PC. She took 6 months to make her first decision on our case, does not respond in a timely manner, does not begin to try to enforce her decisions, gets my children's names wrong and now makes decisions despite me (most of her decisions were in my favor) and not what is best for my children because I accepted her resignation and called her out on her unprofessionalism. She resigned 5 months ago and now says she won't resign unless both parties agree. My ex sent her nasty emails too about not responding about issues. A waste of money and this has only hurt my children. She made us so many promises and failed to meet any of them. She also would say things on the phone and then not write them in her decisions such as my ex is "toxic". She would say she couldn't make decisions but the judge needed to and she would not talk to the judge on behalf of my kids. So sad.

STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS. She overstayed her contract by a year, ignoring the two year limit imposed by the court order. She was terminated but kept issuing orders, one of which has kept me from having parenting time with my daughter for nearly a year now. She is one sided, denying every request I ever made, including one several years ago to have 15 more hours with my daughter, (during the summer on MY weekend) to attend my grandmother's funeral in Wisconsin. STAY AWAY. You have been warned.

Ms. Arbogast is extremely unprofessional and as others have noted, she is certainly biased. While she is officially still my PTE, I have filed 4 Ethics complaints with the ADR Board, who have accepted each of my complaints and is investigating. In my J&D it states "the off duty parent is to have telephone access at bedtime with the minor children". When I was not being allowed to speak to my kids at bedtime, I brought this to Lynn. She responded that my Ex did not need to provide contact each evening because the J&D said "bedtime". When I asked if bedtime is not once every 24 hour period, then what is it? She woul not respond. In another instance my Ex provided vacation notice 23 days in advance of the time off she was requesting, while our J&D specified 30 days advance notice was required. Lynn responded that my Ex had provided 30 days notice. When I (again) provided the e-mail from Our Family Wizard with the dates of the e-mail showing 23 days advance notice, and explained that we had plans already, Lynn again said the 30 days was met. I sent Lynn a calendar and asked her to explain how 30 days was met. She refused to respond, and then I had to have my attorney intervene. Only then did Lynn respond, but showed her non-neutral nature by stating "xxxx even though you were only a few days off....". I could provide many more examples, but please take my advice and stay away from Lynn Arbogast. She won't help your family in any meaningful way and as others have clearly stated she is extremely biased. There are other professionals that can help your family.

Lynn Arbogast is incompetent and a fraud. She has earned herself a bad reputation in the court room in her mediation practices as she has been removed by judges in family court on multiple occasions. She can't type a coherent sentence with proper grammar. She cashes checks months after mediation and then will proceed to double bill. She sides with one parent over the other based on what one parent wants, and not what is fair. She has no understanding of child development or family relationships and has no concept of professionalism.

Lynn mediated for me and my ex in march of 2009. During the mediation, I guess I didn't really have so many issues with her. She did not really help to make decisions or "counsel", but overall she was okay. The worst part is after the fact i payed her and she cashed my check by April. I had not recieved any paperwork, so I called her and e-mailed her. She did not respond, so I called again... afterall she had cashed my check. The paperwork was rightfully mine. It is now July 14th and I finally recieved my paperwork. She apologized that my paperwork was misfiled, yet she did not apologize for not getting back to me for three months to let me know why. She then went on to send me a condescending, rude and unprofessional e-mail as follows:



Mr. ******* and Ms. *******,



Attached please find your Memorandum of Agreement.



I do apologize for the delay but my notes were misfiled in another file and was just located.







Mr. *******- Please cease calling me any more. I just returned into my office and noted that you have called me no less than 16 times today. In addition you have threatened me as well.



Please know that threatening me with the Burnsville Police is totally inappropriate behavior. Know that the fees that you paid were for my time with you on March 20 and I was doing the write up at no charge. You paid for my time on March 20th and this document was no charge. I have NOT swindled you or anyone.



Mr. O'Rourke should you need further mediation services, please locate someone else to assist you.



Lynn Arbogast







The attatched memorandum of agreement was filled with spelling errors, and only spoke of one child, when there were two. I am extremely dissatisfied with Lynn Arbogast as a mediatior, and would not reccomend her to others.