Description: Durham Board Certified Specialist in Family Law
Welcome to the Barri Payne Mediation website. Barri Payne is a Durham lawyer who is a Board Certified Specialist in Family Law and a Certified Family Financial Mediator. Near Duke Hospital and Duke University campus, her office is especially convenient to the doctors, nurses, academicians, and grad students employed and attending there. The office is also convenient to attorneys coming from Durham, Orange or Wake Counties as the office is just off Interstate 85N in Durham.
Mediation can offer creative and fair resolutions for separating couples.
Mediation is an informal, out of court process where the parties can share information with a neutral mediator about the conflict so that the mediator can help facilitate an amicable resolution. As a mediator Barri has had special training to help people speak openly about their goals and negotiate resolutions without going to court. Mediators do not have to be lawyers and they do not give legal advice to the parties or represent them in court. However, choosing a mediator, such as Barri, who does practice