Family Law

• Divorce
  You will meet together and also separately with the mediator to work out the significant issues raised by the decision to divorce or separate. Your mediator will help identify the problems you need to resolve and help guide you through the decision-making process toward agreements that are acceptable to each of you. An average case involves 2-5 mediation sessions of one to two hours each. The mediator will then draft a memorandum of understanding for your review. The agreement becomes the basis for an uncontested divorce. Frequently no court appearance is necessary.
• Child Support
  Family Law Links. A variety of Arizona resources and information focused on Family Law Guidelines, Child Support Guidelines, Parenting classes, and Legal Self Help information
• Paternity
  Yes. Mediation is very beneficial to the children of divorcing parents because parents work together to resolve parenting issues and keep the child out of the middle. The latest research on divorce and children suggests that how parents go about separating, not necessarily the fact that they are separating, has the most significant impact on children. An ongoing conflict between you, the parents, is what is most damaging to your children. In Arizona, divorcing families with minor children and paternity actions involving minor children are required to try to resolve parental time issues through the use of mediation before seeking the assistance of the court.
• Spousal Support
  Attorney Marie Mendelson Piccarreta uses her legal knowledge and mediation skills as the mediator at Old Pueblo Mediation Services.  She believes in open and honest communication, collaboration, and professionalism.  Ms. Piccarreta is highly trained in dispute resolution techniques and has been specifically trained as a divorce mediator. She has successfully mediated numerous family disputes, including disputes arising from marital dissolution, legal separation, property division, legal decision-making, parenting time, child support and spousal maintenance.  Marie Piccarreta’s skills and experience has earned her the honor of being listed in The Best Lawyers in America© in the area of Family Law Mediation.
• Legal Separation

Trusts and Estates

• Probate