Steve Scher

Steve Scher is a licensed Clinical Social Worker who was trained in 1984 at the well regarded Mediation Training Institute, and has over 35 years of experience mediating marital issues in the Staten Island Community.

Steve personally meets with the divorcing spouses in hour long sessions, with an average mediation process lasting on average 4-6 sessions, depending on the circumstances and complexity of the family situation.

He then drafts the "Memorandum of Understanding", that reflect the details of the negotiated agreement.

The benefit to divorcing spouses when working together with a professional mediator:

Negotiate all decisions regarding dissolution of their marriage:
Done in a non-adversarial process:
You are part of the decision-making process, rather than having a judge decide for you:
Better for relations moving forward

WHAT IS DIVORCE MEDIATION?

Nurture your children
Design your own future
Preserve your assets
Make empowered, responsible choices
Divorce with dignity

BENEFITS OF DIVORCE MEDIATION

Mediating couples report greater satisfaction than the traditional lawyer based adversarial process:

Takes less time
Spend less money
Less likely to go back to court at a later date  (incurring more expense).
Research is suggestive that children cope more successfully after the divorce

BA. City College of New York
MSW. Adelphi University

Post Graduate Certifications at NYU and Columbia
Adjunct Professorships at Yeshiva University, Touro College and Columbia University

Deputy Director of Manhattan Psychiatric Center
Assistant Regional Director, NYS Office of Mental Health
Director of Mental Health Services, Institute for Community Living
Executive Director, Staten Island Behavioral Network
Advanced Practitioner Mediator, Association for Professional Family Mediators