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125 S. Chaparral Court, Suite 100
Anaheim Hills,
California
92808
Phone: 714-283-3400
Fax: 714-283-3401
2102 Business Center Drive, #280-L
Irvine,
California
92612
Phone: 949-253-5885
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Bart Carey
My name is Bart Carey and I practice family law. I often refer to my job as being a “Peacemaker”. (That’s how we decided on the website name). Mediation and Collaborative practice are not just a market niche for me to make a living – they are a ministry.
I grew up in Anaheim, California. I am a graduate of Servite High School, C.S.U. Fullerton and Western State University College of Law. In 1988 I started a general civil practice with a partner who handled family law. I noticed early on I was more interested in my partner’s cases than fender benders and contract disputes. Long story short, I was soon “hooked”. When my partner retired in 1992, I was on my way to a full-time exclusive family law practice.
As I gained experience in divorce and custody cases, I saw the impact of litigation on clients and, especially, children. I resolved to find a better way to help families journey through divorce. My own divorce experience informed me about the need for emotional, financial and spiritual support for families going through dissolutions. By 1997 I was trained and offering what I call “mediation plus”. Mediation plus referrals to professional counselors for emotional, financial and pastoral needs; usually to professionals/pastors with whom they already had prior relationships.
At the same time I served as a volunteer board member of Family Assessment, Counseling and Educational Services, Inc., aka F.A.C.E.S., a non-profit whose mission is to provide family counseling, parenting classes, anger management classes, monitored visitation and other services on a sliding scale basis to families with children caught “in the cross fire” of divorce. From 1997 through 2002 I served on their board, including 4 years as president.
I have engaged in countless hours of training and education in various mediation techniques, the issues of families in conflict from domestic violence prevention to pastoral care. In a mediation seminar on high conflict divorce in 2000, I saw the collaborative model applied to a mediation – and another light went on.
Divorce is not the end of the family. There are children, grandchildren, graduations, weddings and funerals. As a peacemaker, my mission is to help you and your family journey through this crisis with a better future and hope for a family that does not remain in conflict and continue to cause pain to your children and grandchildren.
About Collaboration
In a nutshell, Collaborative Divorce provides an affordable, expedient, multidisciplinary, non-court alternative to resolving the dissolution of your marriage by providing you and your spouse with the tools, professional support and guidance to reach mutual decisions which place your children first and accomplish your goals and priorities.
Benefits of Collaborative Practice
- Long Term Approach
- Cost Effective
- Honest Assessment from own Counsel
- Voice = Effective Co-Parenting
- As with Mediation:
- Control the Length of Process
- More Creative Options Available
- More Likely
- Think preventive medicine.
- Think restorative justice.
- Think value added mediation.
- Think Respect
- Think Dignity and Empowerment for the individual.
About Mediation
Cicero said: "The litigious spirit is more often found with ignorance than with knowledge of law."
Most simply defined mediation is facilitated negotiations. Mediation gives the client the control over decision making. The mediator is a "neutral" to the negotiations who acts to break impasses and to act as a catalyst focusing clients on their values and interests.
Mediation is both a science and an art.
Mediation is the art of:
- Facilitating discussion without being part of the conversation.
- Listening to what is and is not being said and making it heard.
- Understanding the dynamics of disagreement and how to go beyond it.
- Going beyond impasse to agreement, beyond agreement to settlement.
Mediation is the science of:
- Analyzing the context of a dispute and breaking it down to the manageable.
- Discovering value hidden within content of negotiations.
- Guiding negotiations and creating options.
- Managing information and resources during the process.
Please email us or visit our website for additional information.
