Operating legal services that address the issues arising from separation without forgetting about the people:

• meet to learn your facts and assist you to organize your financial and other facts;
• communicate with the lawyer on the other side to identify issues and make a start on addressing them;
• review with client the alternative approaches to the problem solving starting with the collaborative process; and
• keep the long term in mind: fair and just protection for you in the short and in the long term.

Ed Mayhew is a lawyer who centers his practice on family and estate issues who possesses the formal training shared by all lawyers and the experience, skills and knowledge that come with years of focusing on family law. He has taken the mediation and collaborative training designed to help him communicate with his client and to help his client communicate with the party opposite in a civil, productive and cost effective approach to problem solving.

Legal Services:

• Powers of Attorney; and
• Wills.

In the family context:

• assist you with financial and other fact gathering;
• lay out the facts in an organized way;
• discuss the options of approach and facilitate clients to choose a process that suits their needs;
• set clients' facts, needs and wishes out in a businesslike noncombative, constructive, fashion;
• explain the law whether it is child support responsibilities or organizing the scheduling of parenting or financial division;
• make use of the tools for analysis such as the SUPPORTmate program from DIVORCEmate; and
• work with clients in the process of overcoming emotional blocks and focusing on constructive approaches for resolution.

Ed Mayhew knows from experience that his clients' children will want both of their parents to attend their wedding.