Providing Divorce Mediation Services Throughout California
Providing Divorce Mediation Services Throughout California
Divorce is stressful enough. Work with top divorce mediators Dina & Samira to take control of your case in Oakland, CA offering the most comprehensive divorce mediation services.
Divorce mediation is a great way to stay in control of your divorce in Oakland and throughout California. Unlike a traditional divorce which takes an average 2 years and can cost from $20,000.00 to $100,000.00+, mediation puts the couple in control of the process. As a result, the couple ends up with a high-quality agreement for a fraction of the cost and time. The mediator empowers the couple with family law options to maximize the community benefits, identify separate claims, and finalize the couple’s divorce. By providing these resources to the couple together, the couple rebuilds trust and teamwork to finish their divorce.
Your mediator can be a lawyer (attorney-mediator) or another certified third-party person (non-attorney mediator). At Families First Mediation, our mediators are family law attorneys with at least 20 years of family law experience. Our mediators pride themselves in creative agreements, which focus on important details like tax consequences and maximizing the benefits available to the parties compared to a traditional divorce process.
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At Families First Mediation, we are a dedicated team of six professionals with over 60 years of combined experience in family law. Our collaborative group includes skilled attorney mediators, a financial mediator, a case manager, and a divorce paralegal, all committed to providing compassionate and effective divorce mediation services in California.
Principal & Founder Attorney-Mediator
Dina Haddad is the founder and principal of Families First Mediation, one of California’s top-rated mediation services.
As an attorney-mediator based in California, Dina has helped countless couples resolve issues related to divorce, legal separation, child custody, spousal support, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements—amicably and effectively.
She earned her post-doctorate law degree in mediation from the renowned Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.
Dina has practiced family law at some of the most respected firms in both Southern and Northern California. She brings a strong legal background together with a thoughtful, educational approach to mediation—ensuring both parties feel informed, heard, and empowered to reach lasting agreements.
She has served as Judge Pro Tempore for Personal Property Arbitration in Santa Clara County and is a family law mediator with the Agency for Dispute Resolution (ADR), a premier provider of private dispute resolution services.
The most important step is to make the conscious effort to mediate your divorce. Those that do save money, time and fees. And at Families First, our parties leave with high quality agreements for their today and future. Book a free consultation to learn how you can mediate your divorce successfully.
You will meet with the attorney-mediator and your spouse in working sessions. On average, parties need 6 sessions. The attorney-mediator will help you understand the law and provide you options for property division, parenting and child and spousal support. Using that information, the attorney-mediator will guide you to an agreement. We are looking for results that you understand and work for you, each other, and your family - both today and for your future.
We work with you to complete the required steps for a California divorce. This includes completing and exchanging your financial disclosures. We use these disclosures to help us reach the agreement.
We will put your agreements together in a final agreement, known as an Marital Settlement Agreement. We submit this to court to become your divorce judgment. You won't have to go to court. Most of our parties finish in less than 6 months.
Explore client stories and reflections on how we’ve made divorce in California simple and stress-free through our mediation process.
