About
Experienced and compassionate legal professional empowering clients to creatively resolve own family struggle.
Dedicated to empowering customers to make the best choices they can as they navigate through the emotional, financial, and criminal aspects of a divorce. I am a trial legal professional, certified collaborative divorce lawyer, and certified mediator in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I awareness solely in circle of relatives law, and assist my customers with conventional litigation, negotiated settlements, mediation, arbitration, and collaborative divorce.
I assist households with their troubles in regions of divorce, custody, parenting time, child aid, spousal support, and belongings division, in conjunction with put up-judgment troubles that arise in the ones regions. I do that thru exclusive processes for divorce along with traditional litigation, negotiated settlements, mediation, arbitration, and collaborative divorce. I additionally assist with prenuptial agreements, or agreements concerning belongings previous to getting married.
I am very obsessed on my clients and what I do, and I am devoted to instructing my customers about issues that involve the family. I publish frequently on my Michigan Family Law blog and AVVO. I were a guest columnist in nearby newspapers, which includes the Northville Record. I were interviewed on circle of relatives regulation problems via ABC News and print media, which include the Detroit News.
In 2009 I become licensed as a Divorce and Custody Mediator after rigorous education on the Mediation Training and Consultation Institute. I turned into certified as a Collaborative Divorce Lawyer after completion of the Collaborative Divorce Basic Training in 2020. I attended Advanced Mediation and Collaborative Training in 2012 and 2020, and finished my Domestic Violence Screening Protocol Training in 2009.
I were named to the Michigan Super Lawyers Rising Stars, demonstrating a excessive diploma of professional success and peer popularity. Each yr, no greater than 2.five% of the legal professionals in Michigan get hold of this prestigious designation.
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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
Collaborative Practice Institute of Michigan
Divorce Mediation
Mediation Training and Consultation Institute
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Experience
- Lawyer/Owner
Wendy Alton Family Law & Mediation PLC
2020 - Lawyer
Pear Sperling Eggan & Daniels, P.C.
2012 - Lawyer
Fausone Bohn, LLP
2010 - Assistant City Lawyer / Prosecutor
City of Westland
2010 - Lawyer/Owner
Alton Law Office PLC
2007 - Lawyer
Foster, Meadows & Ballard, P.C.
2002 - Law Clerk
Fildew Hinks P.L.L.C.
1999
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