RI Divorce Mediation Center Staff and Mission Statement

RI Divorce Mediation Center Staff

Lori A. Grover, N.C.P.M., President

Lori A. Grover is a Divorce and Family Mediator who received her mediation training from Lakewood College; she has been certified by and is a member of the National Association of Certified Mediators (NACM)‚ and a Founding Member of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators.

 

Lori Grover, a divorced (and now remarried) mom and successful businesswoman with a background in the commercial transportation and consumer finance industries, actually discovered the benefits of divorce mediation by accident. 18 years ago when divorce mediation was unknown outside of the more legally progressive minded areas of the country and against the advice of their attorneys, family and friends she persuaded her ex-husband to join her in negotiating their own divorce settlement to avoid the legal expenses and conflict that was developing for the sake of their young daughter. And while they were successful in creating a settlement, like many divorces, recovery – especially financial recovery – took years, mainly due to poor if any financial planning before and during their divorce.

In the years that followed Lori found herself interacting professionally with a great number of divorcing couples and recently divorced individuals and she recognized the need for couples going through a divorce to not only get divorce advice and information from less adversarial minded legal professionals, but also the need for good divorce advice from other professionals in fields such as accounting, taxes and real estate at the appropriate time to help them prepare and manage the divorce process in a better way; a way that minimizes the financial damage and emotional fallout so common in divorce, so she founded the Divorce Resource Center of Rhode Island in 2006.

Lori’s passion for the benefits mediation offers divorcing couples inspired her to train to become a certified professional mediator specializing in divorce and family conflict and she has since successfully helped hundreds of couples create a divorce settlement to help them end their marriage peacefully and settle their financial affairs fairly and sensibly. Many professional mediators bring an additional skill set to the mediation table that benefits their clients and Lori is no different in this regard. As an unstable economy, a weak job market, soft home values and excessive consumer debt make the average divorcing couple’s ability to divide one household into two even more difficult, Lori’s professional home finance and credit repair experience has become especially helpful by enabling her to help her mediating clients develop smart, cost effective strategies and solutions to help them achieve the best possible financial outcome given their circumstances, income and resources.

Kevin J. Grover, Vice-President

Kevin Grover, a divorced dad (now happily remarried to ‘The Boss’) with 25 years of experience in sales, business management and marketing is the Center’s Operations Manager and Webmaster. In addition to the day to day business operations, Kevin assists the Divorce Mediation Center’s clients with task of collecting and organizing all the necessary financial and monthly living expense documentation couples need when preparing to divorce. This benefits the Center’s clients in two very important ways: First, the information is used to create detailed asset, property and budget reports which the couple then uses during their divorce mediation sessions which, by having everything to be discussed at their fingertips, eliminates any guesswork or especially suspicion between them. This makes the divorce mediation process smoother and more productive because everything’s “on the table”. Secondly, once the couple agrees on their divorce settlement they’re provided with updated reports reflecting the final results of their agreement which they can then use or provide to their attorneys for preparing the financial asset and expense affidavits the court requires saving them both a lot of time and effort. As a divorced father and a man who’s lived with the fallout from divorce from a young age, Kevin shares Lori’s passion and commitment to help couples minimize the damage divorce can cause, especially to the children involved.

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Company Mission Statement

• To instill confidence, encourage self determination and educate‚ empower‚ and support our divorcing clients and their children as they navigate and endure the financial and emotional problems, challenges and lifestyle changes that are a part of every divorce.
• To work collaboratively on behalf of our clients with our network of qualified local professionals in the fields of Law, Accounting, Real Estate, Financial Services, Mental Health Counseling and other related services to ensure that our divorcing clients and their children remain financially secure and emotionally healthy during and after their divorce.
• To provide the highest quality professional Divorce Mediation services and ensure that our clients are given accurate, reliable information to assist them in making sensible‚ well informed decisions that will help them successfully divorce and go on to live fulfilling, rewarding, productive lives in the future.

 

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