Nadine Marchetti
Founding mediator · Divorce and parenting plans
I spent my early career speaking for one side. Now I help two people speak for themselves.
Nadine spent years in family court before she moved to the mediator’s chair, where she now handles separations and parenting plans. She keeps sessions short, lists decisions on a whiteboard so both people can see them, and writes summaries in plain English.
She leads the firm and is its responsible attorney.
Mediates
- Parenting plans
- Support and shared costs
- Dividing a home and accounts
- Reworking an agreement later
Admissions, courts, education and languages
- Bar admissions
- Iowa2005
- Courts
- Iowa state courts2005U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa2007
- Education
- J.D., Drake University Law School2005B.A., Simpson College2002
- Mediation training
- Family mediation training, 40 hours2012
- Languages
- EnglishItalian
- Memberships
- Association for Conflict Resolution
How Nadine runs a session
She starts with the call to each of you alone, so nobody walks in worried about what the other will say.
In the room, every decision goes on one list. Nothing is closed until both of you have said it out loud, and the list is typed up the same day.
Most people already agree on more than they think. My job is to show them where.
What Nadine mediates
Separation and divorce
Parenting time, support, the home and the accounts.
Changes to an agreement
A job move, a new school or a child’s new needs.
Co-parenting after a hard year
How to talk, and what goes in writing, when talking is hard.
Would you like Nadine to mediate?
Say so on your first call and we’ll look at her calendar before anyone else’s.