From Legal Advice to Complete Mediation Services
At the Law Office of Polly A. Tatum, home of Mediation Advantage Services, we offer a complete range of family law-related legal services. If you are looking for advice on any family law matter — give us a call. We help traditional and non-traditional families seeking litigation representation or mediation of contentious legal disputes.
If you have questions about a family law issue or conflict, contact us today to schedule a consultation with experienced mediator and domestic relations lawyer Polly A. Tatum. Our Worcester law office offers flexible hours, a comfortable environment and we accept major credit cards as payment for our legal services.
Mediation Services
Divorce Mediation: We take a cost-effective, non-combative approach to helping couples (both traditional and non-traditional) settle financial and custodial arrangements out of court.
Custody mediation: Child custody disputes are often the most stressful and emotional aspects of ending a marriage or other committed relationship. Child custody mediation could be a good solution for your family. It gives you the chance to work collaboratively, building a customized custody and parenting arrangement that everyone accepts.
Child support mediation: When parents cannot agree on reasonable child support amounts, mediation can be a faster and less stressful way to find an acceptable compromise than litigation.
Family Mediation: We work with same-sex couples, married couples who do not want to divorce, unmarried partners, parent-child disputes and other disputes involving property division, custody and support matters through peaceable means.
Elder law mediation: This is a relatively new area of mediation, but we can use mediation techniques to work with families of aging loved ones, helping them settle disputes over financial and custodial arrangements.
Family Law Legal Services
Family law: Our firm addresses the domestic and economic matters related to the dissolution of any partnership. When conflicts cannot be resolved in mediation, we can help you explore other avenues of closure.
Divorce & Child Custody: We help married clients who are contemplating divorce, especially when that divorce involves minor children and questions of child custody and parenting.
Child support and modification of existing support orders: We help our clients make important financial decisions about the care of their children following divorce. When there are substantial changes in the financial or social circumstances of either party, we can help you file for or defend against petitions for modification of existing child support or spousal support orders.
Guardianships: We provide a legal voice for families seeking to make arrangements for the care of elders, minor children and vulnerable adults by setting up guardianships and conservatorships.
Adoption: We represent clients in same-sex, and stepparent, relative and unrelated party adoption proceedings.
Wills and estate planning: We create estate planning documents for both families and individuals, creating enforceable plans that accurately reflect our clients' wishes for the future.
Legal Services for GLBT Families
Gay and lesbian families: Our law firm is known for having an accepting environment, one where gay and lesbian families can address family law, divorce and adoption matters, working to find creative and viable resolutions.
Gay and lesbian adoptions: We help gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender couples create a stable family unit by completing a formal second-parent adoption.
Same-sex estate planning: We understand the unique challenges faced by gay and lesbian couples seeking to craft strong and enforceable estate planning documents.
Contact the Law Office of Polly A. Tatum
To schedule your initial consultation, call 508-425-4763 or contact us online.
