Family
Mediation Services, Inc.
Maryland Society of Professional Family Mediators
The goals and purposes of the Maryland
Society of Professional Family Mediators are: (i) to
promulgate and enforce stringent standards for family mediators in the State of
Maryland; (ii) to admit as Members of the Society only those family mediators
who are possessed of the highest degree of education, skill, experience, and
overall competence and who meet the highest ethical standards; (iii) to promote
the public's awareness of family mediation as an alternative to traditional
litigation; (iv) to provide an information and referral service for those
persons seeking to employ the services of a family mediator; (v) to provide
such assistance as may be requested by the Courts of the State of Maryland and
by other governmental agencies in matters which relate or pertain to family
mediation; (vi) to provide mediation training to those persons who aspire to
become family mediators or who wish to improve their family mediation skills;
(vii) to implement a mentoring program for family mediators; (viii) to act as consultants
and advisors with respect to family mediation; and, (ix) to author, publish,
sell, and distribute books, pamphlets, articles, periodicals, circulars,
manuals, reports, journals, curriculums, audio tapes,
video tapes, visual aids, computer programs, and all form and manner of
artistic and literary works which are necessary or desirable to promote and
carry out the purposes of the Society.
Membership in the
Society is limited to those persons who meet the following qualifications:
(a) A member must be
an attorney-at-law admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals of
(b) A member must have
not less than fifteen (15) years experience in the practice of family law
and/or in the practice of family mediation.
(c) A member must be
engaged in the full time practice of family mediation both as a private
practitioner and on referral from a Court of general jurisdiction.
(d) A member must be a
Practitioner Member in good standing of the
(e) A member must have
not less than 150 hours of formal training in mediation skills.
(f) A member must have
participated as a teacher or trainer in the education of prospective family
mediators.
(g) A member must
subscribe to the Standards of Practice for Family and Divorce Mediation
promulgated by the
(h) A member must be
recognized in his or her community as a competent and professional family
mediator.
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