Our Services
Comprehensive Family Dispute Resolution
At Ratner Law, P.C., Ms. Ratner focuses her practice on Divorce Mediation and Parenting Coordination, helping families navigate separation and co-parenting with a child-centered approach.
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Divorce Mediation
A child-centered alternative to litigation, helping families resolve parenting, support, and financial matters in a structured, confidential environment.
Ms. Ratner's mediation practice provides families with the opportunity to actively shape solutions that work for them, rather than leaving decisions to a judge. As a lawyer-mediator, she combines legal expertise with mediation skills to guide discussions, clarify complex legal and financial issues, draft legal documents, and handle court filings.
Through mediation, families develop parenting plans and agreements that promote predictability, cooperation, and healthier transitions during separation.
Understand Your Choices
Helping clients understand the legal and practical implications of their choices throughout the mediation process.
Navigate Complex Issues
Guiding families through complex parenting and financial issues with clarity and expertise.
Effective Communication
Supporting parents to communicate effectively and work cooperatively toward resolution.
Lasting Agreements
Creating agreements that support stability and long-term family well-being, promoting predictability and cooperation.
With extensive family law experience, Ms. Ratner helps clients:
Extended Service
Divorce Mediation with Counsel
For parents who choose to participate in mediation with the involvement of their attorneys.
In this model, parties are represented by counsel, and mediation sessions include attorneys to provide legal guidance while preserving the collaborative and resolution-focused nature of mediation. This approach is well suited for matters involving complex custody arrangements, significant financial considerations, or heightened conflict.
In divorce mediation with counsel, Ms. Ratner:
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Works collaboratively with counsel to structure and manage the mediation process
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Facilitates negotiations concerning custody, parenting time, decision-making, support, and financial issues
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Assists counsel and the parties in evaluating options and understanding custody and financial considerations
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Parenting Coordination
Specialized Alternative Dispute Resolution designed to assist parents who experience ongoing difficulty resolving co-parenting conflicts.
A Parenting Coordinator is a trained, impartial professional—often an attorney, licensed mental health provider, or certified mediator with experience in high-conflict family dynamics—who works with parents to improve communication, manage disagreements, and implement parenting plans in a manner that serves the best interests of their children.
Parenting Coordination is particularly effective in high-conflict situations where ongoing disagreements may create stress or instability for children. The goals are to reduce conflict, improve communication, support healthy parent-child relationships, and promote stability and consistency.
Implement Parenting Plans
Helping parents implement and interpret court orders or parenting plans effectively.
Mediate Day-to-Day Disputes
Mediating disputes about schedules, transitions, and daily parenting decisions.
Conflict Resolution Education
Educating parents on conflict-resolution strategies and effective co-parenting techniques.
Recommendations When Needed
Making recommendations when parents cannot reach agreement, if authorized by the court.
A Parenting Coordinator may:
Areas of Support