Get the Support You Need for Your Divorce or Legal Separation
Divorce Helpline was founded in 1990 to offer individuals an alternative to the traditional adversarial divorce process. Since then, our Santa Cruz attorney mediators have helped thousands of clients successfully navigate the divorce process and regain control of their situations. As experienced lawyers, we provide a range of divorce and legal separation services designed to reduce stress, save time, and minimize costs.
Attorney mediator Allison Hardin leads our Santa Cruz office, serving the Central Coast. With extensive experience in collaborative law and mediation, Allison is dedicated to helping clients navigate their divorce or legal separation. She specializes in Domestic Partnerships/Same-sex marriage, QDROs, contract negotiations (including Union CBAs), and draws on her background in mental health to assist families dealing with addiction. Allison and the Santa Cruz legal team have supported hundreds of individuals in successfully managing their divorce or legal separation, helping them move forward in their lives.
Divorce Helpline provides a range of services, including divorce mediation and private judge options. Mediation allows you and your spouse to work together with a neutral attorney to negotiate and settle your divorce. Our experienced attorney mediators have helped clients with varying degrees of complexity, from a few issues to more contentious situations, to find solutions and reach a final agreement.
For those seeking more control and privacy, we offer private judge services. You can select your own private judge to address unresolved issues and provide a legally-binding decision. This service offers greater control over your divorce process and ensures privacy that is not available through the public court system, along with the potential to expedite proceedings.
If you are going through a litigated divorce, we also provide coaching, consultation, document preparation and review, collaborative divorce services, child and spousal support calculations, and other litigation support to help ease the process for you and your children.
Contact us today to connect with our Santa Cruz legal team. If you’re facing a divorce or legal separation and need support, Divorce Helpline is here to help.