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FAMILY FINANCIAL
MEDIATION IN DURHAM
Certified Family Financial Mediator
& Practicing Board Certified Specialist in Family Law
Mediation Services to Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients
Barri Payne is a Durham Board Certified Specialist in Family Law and a Certified Family Financial Mediator actively practicing family law. Her offices located near Duke Hospital and Duke University campus, are especially convenient to your professional clients, doctors, nurses, academicians, and grad students, practicing, employed, and attending school in the area. Our office is also convenient to attorneys coming from Durham, Orange, or Wake Counties as the office is just off Interstate 85 N in Durham. We provide bright, private conference rooms, wi-fi, and snacks when mediations run a little long.
Barri emphasizes minimizing conflict and helping clients to move through divorce and the issues associated with divorce as quickly and easily as possible. Family law attorneys who had utilized Barri’s services as a mediator have found her straightforward and approachable. She puts clients at ease and helps them think creatively about how to resolve their issues and move toward a brighter future.
Fees & Charges
Payne Family Law and Mediation’s office is perfect for your mediation needs. There are two spacious and comfortable conference rooms with windows overlooking a quiet peaceful office park. The conference rooms are separated by a hallway and kitchen area and offer quiet confidential spaces for separate caucuses with your client. Barri also provides beverages, snacks, guest wi-fi access, and lunch if your case requires a full-day mediation. There is ample parking and neatly landscaped areas outside if clients or attorneys need to take a break.
Barri charges $225 per hour for mediation services and a one-time $175 administrative fee. The fees are shared equally by both parties unless otherwise agreed, and are due at the conclusion of the mediation session. Both parties and attorneys will be provided a copy of the mediation contract in advance of the mediation and will be asked to sign the contract before the start of the mediation.
If appointed by the Court to mediate your matter, Barri charges the court-appointed rate of $150 per hour.
A postponement fee of $200 may be charged to the party who cancels a scheduled mediation if the cancellation is within forty-eight (48) hours of the scheduled start time.
Some Information to Share with your clients.
Mediation is an informal, out-of-court process where the parties can share information with a neutral mediator about the conflict so that the mediator can help facilitate an amicable resolution. As a mediator, Barri has had special training to help people speak openly about their goals and negotiate resolutions without going to court. Mediators do not have to be lawyers and they do not give legal advice to the parties or represent them in court. However, choosing a mediator, such as Barri, who does practice family law and is familiar with the process, the local Judges and can foresee and help you weigh the various costs, benefits, and likely outcomes of your case is extremely helpful. The mediator is not a judge who makes decisions for the parties. Instead, the mediator helps the parties to make their own decisions and decide how to resolve their conflict. Decisions reached this way are more satisfying and more likely to be followed because the parties have had input and a level of control in the process that they do not have in Court.
The right mediator for your divorce, Barri's experience as a practicing Board Certified Specialist in Family Law, as well as being a Certified Family Financial Mediator has uniquely prepared her to help parties resolve issues through mediation. She enjoys helping people talk through their issues to reach a common understanding of the problems and possible solutions to those problems.
Links
- Link to Mediation Rules
- Link to NC Courts Website
- Link to the NC Dispute Resolution Commission’s pamphlet on Mediated Settlement Conferences in Equitable Distribution and other Family Financial Cases
Set Your Mediation Conference
Some Information to Share with your clients.
Mediation is an informal, out-of-court process where the parties can share information with a neutral mediator about the conflict so that the mediator can help facilitate an amicable resolution. As a mediator, Barri has had special training to help people speak openly about their goals and negotiate resolutions without going to court. Mediators do not have to be lawyers and they do not give legal advice to the parties or represent them in court. However, choosing a mediator, such as Barri, who does practice family law and is familiar with the process, the local Judges and can foresee and help you weigh the various costs, benefits, and likely outcomes of your case is extremely helpful. The mediator is not a judge who makes decisions for the parties. Instead, the mediator helps the parties to make their own decisions and decide how to resolve their conflict. Decisions reached this way are more satisfying and more likely to be followed because the parties have had input and a level of control in the process that they do not have in Court.
The right mediator for your divorce, Barri's experience as a practicing Board Certified Specialist in Family Law, as well as being a Certified Family Financial Mediator has uniquely prepared her to help parties resolve issues through mediation. She enjoys helping people talk through their issues to reach a common understanding of the problems and possible solutions to those problems.