Melanie Tardell - Discovery Bay, California

About

Melanie is a compassionate advocate for her clients due to the fact she changed into a client first. After overcoming challenges of divorce and infant custody, largely due to an lawyer s advocacy, Melanie felt known as to turn out to be an lawyer herself. Her private experience offers her an insightful angle on what clients face even as her schooling provides an expertise of the felony attributes of each case. Having real empathy, a knack for research and writing, and a tenacious spirit, Melanie objectives to endorse for and empower every consumer through helping them navigate their case and circulate beyond adversity.
Over the years, Melanie grew disheartened as she discovered others unhappiness of their felony topics. Between wanting to offer humans an advanced legal enjoy and understanding that Big Law changed into now not her route, Melanie changed into stimulated to open a patron-pleasant law exercise constructed on integrity, compassion, and accessibility. As a end result, Signified Law become born.
Melanie operates with a degree-headed, balanced technique on delicate issues as she recognizes it doesn’t gain a patron to inflame an already antagonistic state of affairs. As the emotional and economic price to the client tends to be extra the longer a case drags out in courtroom, Melanie gives alternative answers which include mediation, negotiation, and letter writing with the purpose of settling matters extra favorably and expeditiously out of court. Regardless of the approach, her sole cause is to lighten the client s load and protect their hobbies.
While acquiring her Juris Doctorate degree, Melanie became an authorized mediator and sooner or later co-created a divorce mediation software on the Mandel Gisnet Center for Conflict Management in Monterey County. As a mediator, Melanie found it worthwhile facilitating others as they created their own honest answers. She also interned for a kid advocacy law office, attending family court wherein she labored alongside the courts and social services within the pursuit of reunifying separated households. › ›

Legal Issues

Divorce

Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce

Family Law

Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father s Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law

Arbitration & Mediation

Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration

Costs

Certificates

Languages

Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience

• Founder/Principal Lawyer
  Signified Law
  2020
• Lawyer
  Self-employed
  2019
• Interning Lawyer
  Law Office Of Heidi Simonson
  2018
• Divorce Mediator/Small Claims Advisor
  Mandel Gisnet Center For Conflict Management
  2014

Educations

Video Call/Chat Support