is a partner at Mallor Grodner LLP. Her primary area of practice is family law, including divorce, post-divorce modification, child custody and support issues, premarital and post-marital agreements, adoptions, guardianships, jurisdictional/interstate issues, and paternity matters. Ms. Batalon is a Certified Family Law Specialist, by the Family Law Certification Board, since 2011. She offers her clients the full range of legal process options. Ms. Batalon appreciates that legal process, particularly related to the family, is frightening and stressful for the participants and believes that a good understanding of the process, the applicable law and what to expect diminishes the stress factor. As such, Carrie provides her clients with understanding of their options based on realistic expectations and compassionately addresses the sensitive aspects of each case. As a seasoned trial attorney, she provides strong advocacy for her clients in traditional divorce and post-divorce conflicts, including high asset and high conflict cases, when amicable resolution cannot be achieved. Ms. Batalon is also a skilled and resourceful negotiator, guiding her clients through alternative dispute resolution processes including mediation and Collaborative Divorce. In addition to her comprehensive practice of family law, she continues to represent clients in civil litigation and landlord/tenant law. A graduate of Bloomington High School South, Ms. Batalon is a long-term and active member of the community. She has previously served on the Board of Directors for the Monroe County Chapter of the American Red Cross and as a volunteer with the Girl Scouts of Central Indiana. She presently serves on the Family Law Certification Board and the Family Law Council for the Family Law Section of the Indiana State Bar Association. Ms. Batalon is also a volunteer attorney for Counsel in the Court and the Maurer School of Law Protective Order Project. She earned her B.S. degree from Indiana University and her J.D. degree from Indiana University School of Law.

is an experienced attorney at Emswiller, Williams, Noland & Clarke, LLC, where she focuses her practice on family law, criminal law, juvenile law matters including delinquencies and CHINS or DCS/CPS actions, and appellate work. In addition to her family law cases, she meticulously handles cases involving DCS/CPS, including CHINS actions, foster parent adoptions, change of placement objections, foster parent license revocation, administrative appeals and expungements. As a registered domestic mediator and collaboratively trained attorney, she assists families in determining their own outcomes to their divorce, paternity, child custody, and parenting time disputes. She also serves as a parent coordinator.

is a Union City, Indiana attorney in the Law Office of Christen Commers Smith, where she practices in family law and juvenile law while also serving as a public defender in Indiana. She graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with degrees in Spanish and political science, and received her J.D. degree from Valparaiso University Law School. Ms. Commers Smith is licensed in Indiana and Ohio. She also serves as a guardian ad litem in both Indiana and Ohio.

is an attorney with Allen Wellman Harvey Keyes Cooley, LLP. Maintaining a focus primarily on family law, he has developed an extensive practice in the family law areas of divorce and child custody for parents, grandparents and non-parents. Mr. Lohmeier's interest in this area of law stems back to his own childhood and his upbringing by his single father in a blended family resulting from his parents' divorce. His practice takes him throughout the state of Indiana, as well as out of state where he has been admitted to practice in those states pro hoc vice (case by case basis). Mr. Lohmeier's expertise in child custody litigation extends to resolving conflicting states' orders as well as locating children who have been wrongfully removed from the state of Indiana and whose whereabouts are not specifically disclosed. He is a member of the Indiana Bar Association and Indianapolis Bar Association. Mr. Lohmeier earned his B.S. degree, with honors, from Florida State University and his J.D. degree from Indiana University School of Law.

is the founder and CEO of New Beginnings Family Law, P.C., where her main areas of practice are divorce, child custody, parental alienation, mediation, adoption, and surrogacy. Prior to opening her own practice, she worked in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County Domestic Relations Division as a law clerk for the Honorable Ralph A. Ferguson, Jr., and in the firm of Shaw-Anderson, LLC. Ms. James earned her B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and her J.D. degree from the Birmingham School of Law. She is admitted to practice in Alabama and before the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. James is also a board-certified family law trial advocate, having received her board certification from the National Board of Trial Advocacy. She is a member of the Alabama State Bar, and the American, Morgan County and Huntsville-Madison County bar associations. Ms. James has previously been recognized as Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2020 by the Catalyst Center for Business and Entrepreneurship in Huntsville, Alabama. Her firm was chosen as the Professional Services Business of the Year in 2020 by the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce. Her firm is consistently recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in Huntsville, Alabama and recently received the designation of Best Place for Working Parents.

is a Circuit Court Judge in the 20th Judicial Circuit in Charlotte County, Florida.

, CPA/CFF, CFE is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the states of Florida and Kentucky. She is also Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). Since 2013, Ms. Ellis has been the managing member of Leslea Ellis, LLC, a Fort Myers boutique accounting firm specializing in forensic accounting, litigation support, small business accounting and tax return preparation and consultation. She is a Kentucky native who moved to southwest Florida in 2004 to work for General Electric Company. Prior to her job at General Electric, Ms. Ellis worked for Louisville Gas & Electric Company, a regulated utility in Louisville, Kentucky. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, with a concentration in accountancy from the University of Louisville in 1999. In 2002, Ms. Ellis became a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Kentucky. After earning a Master of Accounting degree with a concentration in Forensic Accounting from Florida Atlantic University in 2012, she became a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Florida. She earned additional credentials - Certified in Financial Forensics and Certified Fraud Examiner - in 2015 and 2012, respectively. In addition to serving as the treasurer for the Association of Family Law Professionals (AFLP) since January 2018, Ms. Ellis is the past treasurer of Lee County Legal Aid Society (April 2014 to October 2017), an appointee to the Florida Bar Grievance Committee for the Twentieth Judicial Circuit (July 2015 - September 2018) and is currently serving on The Florida Bar Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee for the Twentieth Judicial Circuit (February 2021 to current). She and her husband enjoy being on the water, traveling in their RV, and spending time with their three beloved rescued pets - Scarlett, Bingo and Elvis.