PeaceMaker Mediation

Specialties

PeaceMaker Mediation is the Southern Tier’s premier divorce and business mediation organization. We handle divorce, parenting, asset distribution and all other aspects of resolving divorce without a court battle.

We also handle business disputes, family disputes, estate disputes, property disputes and landlord –tenant disputes.

History

Established in 1989.

Since 1998 we have completed over 200 divorce, child custody and business mediation cases.

MEDIATION will save you substantial sums of money and allow you to create your own legally binding agreement to resolve your dispute without a court battle. While court battles using lawyers can take many months and sometimes years to make their way through the legal system, mediation can be completed in just a few weeks or months depending on the complexity of your situation. 99% of all lawsuits end by way of a negotiated settlement.

MEDIATION focuses on reaching an agreement to resolve the dispute at the beginning before spending thousands of dollars on lawyers and court costs while litigation focuses on reaching an agreement before trial, after spending substantial sums which will never be regained.

AGREEMENTS reached in mediation are as legally binding as judgments rendered in court and are more likely to be complied with because the parties author their agreements.

Meet the Business Owner

Carl V.

Business Owner

Carl’s is an attorney and mediator in private practice. He has operated his own law firm since 1991. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Vermont Law School, Cum Laude, in 1984 and graduated Magna Cum Laude, from State University of New York at Fredonia in 1980. He also participated in an international study program at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Additionally Carl has taught Civil Rights Law at Jamestown Community College and Business law at St. Bonaventure University as an adjunct.

Carl has practiced divorce and family law for 28 years and has a general court practice in Olean New York. In 1998 Carl opened PeaceMaker Mediation and has conducted over two hundred divorce and child custody mediation case.

Carl is a member or former member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, the New York State Council of Divorce Mediators and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. The New York State Bar Association, the Cattaraugus County Bar Association.