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Confidential, Collaborative, and Compassionate Family Dispute Solutions

Whether you're navigating a divorce, resolving child custody issues, or dividing assets, the process can be stressful and overwhelming. FH&P Lawyers offers Mediation and Arbitration Services, providing you with alternative, more peaceful pathways to resolve conflicts outside the courtroom.

Our experienced Family Law Mediators and Arbitrators are skilled in helping families reach fair, sustainable agreements in a supportive and confidential environment. We prioritize your well-being and the best interests of your children, ensuring that all parties have a voice while minimizing the adversarial nature of traditional litigation.

Through Mediation, we guide you and your family through open, constructive discussions aimed at finding common ground and mutually acceptable solutions. If a more formal process is necessary, Arbitration offers a binding, legally enforceable decision made by an impartial third party, providing closure without prolonged court proceedings.

Audra Bayer - Family Mediation

The focus of Audra’s practice is Mediation, Arbitration, Collaborative Law, and Family Law coaching including offering unbundled services. Audra firmly believes that where possible and appropriate to do so, families should use Meditation, arbitration or collaborative law to resolve family matters, including:

• Divorce and Separation
• Child Custody and Parenting Arrangements
• Child and Spousal Support
• Family Agreements
• Family Property and Debt Division
• Wealth and Asset Protection

Audra offers services as a lawyer but also as a Mediator and Arbitrator and brings over 20 years of experience and a practice that has been predicated on complex Family Law settlement resolution to the Mediation/arbitration table. Audra provides a variety of mediation services including mediation of interim and or urgent issues including holiday parenting issues, disclosure, interim distribution, etc. You can schedule 2-hour mediations for these issues or longer if required. Audra will be happy to try to accommodate short-notice requests whenever possible.

Audra is an open, respectful straight shooter and values the same with those she works with. If you are serious about obtaining a reasonable outcome that will allow you to move on with your life, you and your lawyer must be prepared. Financial disclosure should be fully exchanged in advance of the mediation. If child and or spousal support are issues to be resolved, you should have your calculations based on a number of scenarios completed and exchanged in advance of mediation and come prepared to discuss these and negotiate. If property division is at issue, have your family property accounting completed (Scott Schedule) which ought to be completed based on valuation documents which have been exchanged. If there are corporate assets to divide, ensure you have your proverbial ducks in a row being expert reports, advice and options and have your experts available to reach during the Mediation. If income determination is an issue, once again, those ducks must be aligned including the exchange of all documents relevant to the determination of the income, any expert reports (including guideline income reports) and issues such as attribution of expenses ought to be fleshed out in advance including the exchange of documents and production of expert reports and exchange of any calculations and proposals.

You may choose to retain Audra for an extended Mediation process which is when you retain Audra at the outset of your matter and she will mediate interim issues as they arise and then ultimately mediate the final resolution of your family law issues.

Although Mediation attended by lawyers and the parties is generally the best way to proceed, Audra will provide Mediation services to parties attending without counsel on a case-by-case basis. These parties must have fully exchanged financial disclosure and be fully prepared as described hereinabove, must have completed the screening process, and must obtain independent legal advice in advance of Mediation and post-mediation. Audra encourages parties to have a lawyer available by telephone during Mediation as well.

Getting Started

Audra looks forward to working with you to resolve your Family Law issues. To begin your Mediation process, please contact one of the following staff members who will be happy to assist you by starting with a conflict check:

Amber: aosullivan@fhplawyers.com

Tanya: tsanmartin@fhplawyers.com

Deborah: dcampbell@fhplawyers.com

What we need if the parties are self-represented:

1. Particulars to complete a conflict check: full legal names of both parties and maiden names if applicable. Full legal names of any new partners/spouses;
2. Brief description of issues to be Mediated and whether the resolution of any of the issues is urgent and if so which issues and what is the nature of the urgency. Please also confirm whether you require Mediation on an interim basis, final basis or both (extended Mediation process);
3. Once Audra has confirmed that the matter is suitable for Mediation and she is available to Mediate, a Mediation retainer agreement will be provided which should be taken to a lawyer to obtain independent legal advice, and then the retainer will be paid. A confidential intake form will then be provided (that will not be shared with the other party) for purposes of your first call and screening meeting with Audra. Audra is required to complete a family violence screening and this will be completed in the first intake call.

What we need if the parties are represented by counsel:

1. Particulars to complete a conflict check: full legal names of both parties and maiden names if applicable. Full legal names of any new partners/spouses. Names and contact information for lawyers;
2. Brief description of issues to be Mediated and whether the resolution of any of the issues is urgent and if so which issues and what is the nature of the urgency. Please also confirm whether you require Mediation on an interim basis, final basis or both (extended mediation process);
3. Once Audra has confirmed that the matter is suitable for Mediation and she is available to Mediate, a Mediation retainer agreement will be provided and independent legal advice should be provided, the agreement signed, and then the retainer will be paid. A confidential intake form will then be provided (that will not be shared with the other party or the lawyers) for purposes of the parties’ first individual private call and screening meeting with Audra. Audra is required to complete a family violence screening and this will be completed in the first intake call. A call will also be set with the lawyers to discuss the matter and the Mediation process.

Learn more and start the process here:

https://www.audrambayerlaw.com