Jay Folberg, Esq. has been a family and divorce mediator for over 30 years. Considered one of the founders of the ADR practice, he is particularly skilled at getting to the heart of financial issues and dealing with the emotional factors that create obstacles to settlement. A former Dean and now professor Emeritus at the University of San Francisco School of Law, he has taught and written extensively about family law.
Representative Mediations
- Marital separation agreement involving multiple vineyard properties and other assets, as well as parenting plan that responded to mother’s concerns about father’s “new age” religious practices
- Dispute between divorcing spouses over division of royalties and residuals from existing films and value of works in progress
- Valuation of stock options and other contingent compensation in dissolution of long term marriage
- Matter regarding value of medical practice and creation of parenting plan between physician undergoing sex change operation and wife who was business manager of his group medical practice
- Divorce settlement involving contested prenuptial agreement that attempted to protect a growing multimillion dollar closely held corporation and appreciating family estate
- Mediated terms of a postnuptial agreement in lieu of divorce, as well as other prenuptial agreements in aid of marriage
- Resolved several contested adoptions as part of inheritance disputes
- Mediated same-sex and heterosexual partnership agreements
- Settled intra-family and intergenerational business and property disputes of all types
- Mediated move-away parenting plans and financial arrangements for multi-home parenting
