Marriage Counselor in Portland, Oregon

Mission Statement

To provide Portland quality Divorce Attorney assistance as a Counselor, Family Counseling Service, Couples Counselor and Divorce Services.

Peace Making meeting your Divorce Attorney needs since 1974.

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How Peace-Making Creates Family Peace

Peace-Making is a full service family law firm that helps restructure families using mediation, arbitration, collaboration and representation.

We avoid family warfare and create opportunities for fulfilling family relationships.

Through our help, process and classes, you can develop your best possibilities. For some, that means separation and divorce. For others, it means learning the skills that create a fulfilling relationship with an existing partner.

You have a fundamental choice: Separation and Divorce or Relationship Transformation. We help you harness your energy and skillfully find your own peace.

Some elements of Peace-Making:

Find your best possibility
Create peace now
Learn the skills that create fulfilling relationships
Divorce and learn the skills that protect children from divorce damage

Contact us today and learn how Peace-Making can help you in the most important areas of your life.

Definitions:

Relationship Transformation: training in Peace-Making and marital skills that infuses empathy, healing and mutual support into relationships.

Peace: the state that occurs when we remain within our compassionate nature, tending and fulfilling essential human needs; the tranquility and joy from a thriving life.

Peace-Making: the skills that focus on deepening insight, practicing love and creating a willing environment for mutually supportive decisions.

Separation: a time out from living together and having to deal with each other’s emotions daily. It can be created within the same household, but the arrangements must be simple, separate and agreed upon.

Divorce: ends the relationship, or if you have children together, limits it to raising the children.

Divorce Mediation: a conversation structured by a mediator to help you safely say what needs to be heard, hear what has been said and make joint decisions that are mutually supportive.
Peace-Making Mediation: a unique process created by Peace-Making to resolve emotions; especially useful in creating working partnerships for co-parenting.

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family Law

Family Law Without War

Peace-Making has a family law attorney represent clients without warfare; almost all of our cases settle without trial.

We gather the facts, define the narrow range a judge would consider meets the "community standard of fairness" and offer a settlement that is better than the trial judge would order. If we settle, you save the tremendous expense of trial and gain the certainty of resolution now.



If the offer is rejected, however, we go to trial. In trial, we try to prove why our offer was better than what the judge should award. Then, we prove to the judge that the trial was unnecessary, and we get an award of attorney fees.

Trial still has significant expense, time delays and emotional damage, but it is not warfare. Because we focus on simply proving what is so we don't participate in the character flaw tactics that become part of many trials.



Some elements of Family Law Without War:

Contact us today and learn how Peace-Making's Family Law Without War can help you in the most important areas of your life.

Definitions:

Trial: formal public hearing in a courtroom with complex rules; ends with a judge deciding all issues.

Representation: when an attorney is employed to look out only for your interests.

Family Law Attorney: a lawyer trained in family law and divorce trials.

Family Law Without War: the way a peace-making family law attorney conducts preparation, negotiation, settlement or trial.

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separation & Divorce Mediation

Peaceful Separation



Commonly, when a marriage is troubled, the partners will have a long period of arguing and misery followed by a self-destructive public crash in court and a lifetime grudge.

But before you end up in this situation, Peaceful Separation gives you an alternative.



Through this process, you can take some time away from your relationship. With safety and peace, you can learn the skills that create fulfilling relationships. Use this time (6-12 months, if you are dedicated) to relieve the stress long enough to work on your skills. Peaceful Separation may require a simple agreement; it may require a formal written agreement and moving into separate homes.



Meet with Peace-Making for a free consultation to assure a Peaceful Separation will work for you.

After you start gaining skills and some insight, you can invite a more fulfilling relationship. You can use greater clarity to determine if you can build that fulfilling relationship with your current partner, of if you should end the relationship and start over.

Also, you can take the Marital Self Test to determine whether your existing skills might lead to divorce (based upon John Gottman's research). You also can register for the Relationship Transformation course. This course is best taken in-person, but if you live too far away, you can take it by video conference.

Elements of Peaceful Separation:

Contact us today and learn how Peace-Making's Peaceful Separation can help you in the most important areas of your life.



Definitions:

Separation: a time out from living together and having to deal with each other's emotions daily. It can be created within the same household, but the arrangements must be simple, separate and agreed upon.

Divorce: ends the relationship, or if you have children together, limits it to raising the children.

Divorce Mediation: a conversation structured by a mediator to help you safely say what needs to be heard, hear what has been said and make joint decisions that are mutually supportive.

Peace-Making Mediation: a unique process created by Peace-Making to resolve emotions; especially useful in creating working partnerships for co-parenting.


Divorcing is frightening. It permanently ends what you have and creates a different, unknown future. And when you are done trying to make your relationship work, fighting cannot create anything useful for you. Fighting only creates pain and expense.



To help you move on with the least amount of distress, Peace-Making uses mediation to make divorce a peaceful process.

Mediation helps you separate your assets and debts fairly and adjust your monthly income to assure your household works financially. Mediation also can help you decide the welfare and custody of your children.

Peace-Making has created Peace-Making Mediation as a unique process that can resolve the emotions driving the relationship conflict. Peace-Making Mediation is especially useful when you want to create a working partnership in caring for your children. As a private, confidential and efficient process, Peace-Making Mediation is less emotionally and financially costly than any other Alternative Dispute Resolution system, and can be done in just a few weeks.

Elements of Peaceful Divorce Mediation:



Contact us today and learn how Peace-Making's Divorce Mediation can help you in the most important areas of your life.

Definitions:

Family Law Attorney: a lawyer trained in family law and trial of divorces.

Attorney Mediation: a family law attorney trained in mediation.



Peace-Making Mediation: a unique process created by Peace-Making to resolve emotions; especially useful in creating working partnerships for co-parenting.

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transform Your Relationship

Service Locations

Counselor Portland  -  Family Counseling Service Portland  -  Couples Counselor Portland
Divorce Services Portland  -  Marriage Counselor Portland  -  Marital Counselor Portland

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