Carole Sawyer as Your Family Mediator

Carole's family law mediation experience:

• She has conducted more than 500 family law mediations in parenting matters, children's care arrangements, and property settlements
• She has conducted child-inclusive mediations, where a child psychologist provides feedback during the mediation to the parents, after having spent time with the children to determine how they are coping with the separation and current parenting arrangements
• She has conducted over 100 Residential Tenancy conciliations
• She has conducted over 100 QCAT mediations

Carole's family mediation certifications and qualifications:

• She is registered as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner with the Department of the Federal Attorney-General, pursuant to the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth)
  

• She is a nationally accredited mediator under the Australian Mediation Association
• He has a Bachelor of Laws, with electives in mediation

Carole's flexibility in the process of family mediation:

• She provides face-to-face mediation, lawyer-assisted mediation, and shuttle mediation where the parents are in two different rooms
  
• She conducts mediations in Brisbane's CBD, Eight Mile Plains, Milton, and Varsity Lakes on the Gold Coast

Carole's professionalism, understanding and courtesy:

• She is aware of what separated and divorced parents are enduring
  
• She provides a mediation process that places parents most at ease
• She ensures that any power imbalances between parents do not affect the mediation process or influence its outcome

Carole's legal skill as a university law lecturer in writing agreements with precision:

• She provides written agreements that are detailed and precise
• She writes mediation agreements in the same manner as Draft Consent Orders, thereby saving parents the legal costs of having to convert informal mediation agreements into Draft Consent Orders