About Us

Attorney at Law, Director of Legal Services:

Lenard Marlow, Director of Legal Services at Divorce Mediation Professionals, has been a practicing attorney for over forty years. A fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, he has worked exclusively in the field of family law for over thirty-five years. As a pioneer in the field of divorce mediation, he is the founder of one of the oldest and largest divorce mediation facilities in the United States. Past president of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation, and a respected leader in the field, he has lectured extensively on the subject, both in the United States and Canada, as well as in Europe and South America, where he has conducted numerous trainings and workshops.

Lenard is the author of numerous books and articles on the subject of divorce mediation, including The Handbook of Divorce Mediation (co-authored with Dr. S. Richard Sauber, Editor in Chief of The American Journal of Family Therapy), published by Plenum Press, and Divorce and the Myth of Lawyers and Divorce Mediation - A Practice In Search of A Theory, both published by Harlan Press. His latest book has just been translated into Spanish, and was published by Granica both in Spain and Argentina.

Education: Columbia Law School, J.D.

Social Worker, Director of Mediation Services:

Barbara Badolato is a certified social worker and the Director of Mediation Services at Divorce Mediation Professionals. In her years of experience working with couples in divorce mediation, she has had a great deal of experience working with the emotional aspects and financial concerns of husbands and wives going through the difficult experience of their separation and divorce.

As a well respected member of the mental health profession, she is active in the training and continuing education of other mediators in the field. She has made numerous presentations at programs and conferences sponsored by The New York State Council on Divorce Mediation, the Academy of Family Mediators and the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York. She has also lectured on the subject of divorce mediation at law schools and universities in the New York area, including St. John’s University School of Law and Adelphi University’s School of Social Work.

Barbara has been affiliated with Stony Brook University School of Social Work as a field instructor, and is also in private practice working with individuals and doing couple’s therapy.

Education: Adelphi University, School of Social Work, M.S.W.

Attorney at Law, Co-Director of Legal Services:

Maren Cardillo Elbaum, co-director of Legal Services at Divorce Mediation Professionals, has devoted most of her legal career to alternative dispute resolution and now practices exclusively as an attorney-mediator. Maren dedicates her entire practice to assisting couples in finding constructive resolutions for the problems which they find themselves faced with incident to their separation and divorce and provides all related legal services, including drafting agreements, qualified domestic relations orders and deeds.

Maren holds a B.A. in history from Northwestern University and received her law degree from Fordham University School of Law, where she was a member of the Corporate and Financial Law Journal and was actively involved in the Conflict Resolution and Alternative Dispute Resolution Program.

Maren is currently an active member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the national Association for Conflict Resolution, and the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation.

Education: Fordham University School of Law, J.D.

There are many divorce mediators practicing in your area. Why would you choose Divorce Mediation Professionals?

• You will be employing one of the oldest and most respected divorce mediation facilities in the New York metropolitan area.
• You will be working with experienced professionals who have assisted literally thousands of couples mediate their divorce.
• You will receive a complete service, one that includes the legal work as well as the mediation, thereby avoiding the need to employ someone else to prepare your ultimate agreement or to secure your divorce.
• You will be employing professionals who are full time divorce mediators, not someone who only does mediation "on the side", on a part time basis.
• You will be able to meet at your convenience, either in the morning, afternoon or evening in one of our three offices.
• You will come away with the assurance that you have been left with a complete agreement, and that there is nothing of importance that was overlooked or not included.
• You will work with professionals who will help shelter your children from the potentially damaging effects of your divorce.