Our Law Firm was founded by attorney William J. Leininger in 1981. Mr. Leininger is a native New Yorker who graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan and St. Francis College in Brooklyn. In 1974, he graduated from Fordham Law School with the rank of #1 in his Evening Division. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1975 and was subsequently admitted to the Bars of New Jersey and Florida. Mr. Leininger has appeared on the Phil Donahue Show, the Sally Jessy Raphael Show, the Today Show on NBC, the CBS Morning Show, and other national television and radio programs, and has lectured on Divorce for over 40 years. Mr. Leininger became a certified Divorce Mediator in 1994. Since then, he has mediated over 850 cases to completion. We believe that he is one of the most experienced attorney divorce mediators who mediates online with New York residents getting divorced.
No one likes to be thought of as a case number. Every person in our office is here for one purpose: To serve you. If you don’t receive the close personal attention you want, nothing else matters. When you are a mediation client of our firm, you become part of our family. And we guarantee you’ll receive the best service we can offer.
You deserve to be kept current on the progress of your divorce mediation. So we will send you copies of all correspondence and other documents both coming into and going out of our office that concern your case. Good communication is the key to a good working relationship with your divorce mediator. And we intend to make sure that your relationship with our firm is the best you have ever had…or ever will have.
You can be sure that all mediation and legal services performed by our office will be of the highest caliber. If you ever find anything that does not meet your needs or expectations, please bring it to our attention. We will correct the situation immediately
The One Issue Before Divorce Mediation Starts Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Tell me about the process… what happens when somebody says, “yes let’s use a divorce mediator“. Tell me what you do. Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL 98% of the time that’s as a result of that free half-hour […]
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Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL The current state of the law is the judge, when they have the preliminary conference, which is the first time, the judge, the case is called in court, in other words, one party served the other one with the summons and complaint for divorce, the other
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media If one of the parties, either spouses, says, I object to you having a lawyer there, then the other person cannot bring a lawyer, is that correct? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Mediation, yes, mediation is all about self-empowerment of the spouses, not the judge,
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media So, is divorce mediation, is it voluntary, as we just discussed, or is it court mandated? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL That’s changed over the years. Up until recently, New York didn’t have any mandated divorce mediation process. Florida, on the other hand, has had
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media So, it sounds like if it’s uncontested, they hire you as a divorce mediator, they don’t have to appear in court at all. Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Yes, generally that’s the case. Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Wow. So, are those, whatever that
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Is a divorce mediation agreement a binding agreement? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Yes, a divorce mediation agreement is essentially the exact same document that in a non-mediation case the lawyers would be preparing. In some states we call it a marital settlement agreement, in
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media You’ve mentioned a couple of costs of that. Is it just based upon hours and that’s how it, it’s not based upon any sliding scale with the assets, it’s just based upon your hourly rate, is that correct? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL It’s unethical
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media How many different meetings usually occur in a divorce mediation? Does it get resolved in the second time, third time, first time, what? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Well, there’s several different modalities. Some divorce mediators believe in three-to-four-hour sessions. That developed because you have
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media I’ve been involved in a number of settlement conferences, mediations, in a number of civil cases over decades, and they’re scheduled for all day. I really appreciate you setting up a schedule of an hour and a half. What I have found was that it’s a complete waste of
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Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL But at that point, if the judge feels, after talking to the lawyers, that the case is ripe for divorce mediation, he or she may order the parties to meet with a mediator. And then the only thing that the judge is told at the end
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