Serving Santa Fe, Los Alamos, and Rio Arriba Counties
Domestic Relations Mediation
Assists with development of Parenting Plans for custody and/or visitation.
Priority Consultation
Provides brief, focused child custody evaluations.
Advisory Consultation
Provides comprehensive child custody evaluations.
Child Abuse and Neglect Mediation
Assists parents and the CYFD to create agreements for legal and treatment issues.
Open Adoptions Mediation
Assists with post-adoption child visitation arrangements.
Contact
Gary Lombardo, Director
Phone: 505-455-8238
sfedgtl@nmcourts.xyz
Self-Help Center
Serves people without attorneys. Provides forms, information about court procedures, document review services (for divorce and parenting cases), and a monthly orientation class. Does NOT provide legal advice.
Mediation
Foreclosure cases
Settlement Facilitation
Domestic cases – assistance with property and debt division, all civil cases, including probate and foreclosure.
Contact
Kim Moore
Phone: 505-455-8145
sfedkaw@nmcourts.xyz
In Domestic Relations cases, assistance is available twice monthly to quickly resolve some issues in the case. The issues raised by Motions for Orders to Show Cause, Motions to Enforce, Simple Pro se Divorces, and other relatively simple matters are resolved by the agreement of the parties, or by a same-day decision of the judge.
Serving Bernalillo Co.; includes Albuquerque
Self-Help Services
Provides forms and information about court processes.
Family Court Settlement Facilitation
Provides for the early and fair resolution of domestic relations disputes through the settlement conference process.
Civil Settlement Facilitation
Provides for the early and fair resolution of civil disputes through the settlement conference process. Case types are all civil matters excluding appeals, extraordinary writs, court-annexed arbitration program pending cases, adoption, commitment, conservatorship, guardianship, student loan, election, and tax.
Civil Arbitration
Provides for the early and fair resolution of civil disputes through the arbitration process. Mandatory program for most case types in which no party seeks relief other than a money judgment and no party seeks an amount in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00).
Contact
Deanne Romero, Program Manager
Center for Self Help and Dispute Resolution
Phone: 505-841-6702
albdselfhelp@nmcourts.xyz
Settlement Facilitation
Provides an early face to face meeting between borrowers and lenders in residential foreclosure cases to discuss alternative to foreclosure including loss mitigation.
Contact
Marisol Garcia, Program Administrator
Foreclosure Settlement Program
Phone: 505-841-7626
albdfsp@nmcourts.xyz
Children’s Court Division
Phone: 505-841-5906
Child Abuse and Neglect Mediation
Assists with plans for family treatment & reunification (or termination of rights), child safety & wellbeing.
Open Adoptions Mediation
Assists with plans for family transition, schedules for contact and child safety & wellbeing.
Court Clinic Services Offered
Pursuant to NM Stat § 40-12-5 (2020), a “judicial district may establish a domestic relations mediation program by court rule approved by the supreme court. The district court may employ or contract with a counselor to provide consultations, evaluations and mediation in domestic relations cases involving children.” Court Clinic services are only accessed through a court order.
Mediation
Mediation is a confidential process in which parties meet with a Court Clinician “in order to assist the parties in focusing on the needs of the children and to assist in reaching a mutually acceptable parenting plan regarding the child.” Parenting plans and other mediated agreements, typed and filed by the Court Clinic, are the work products of successful mediations.
Consultations
The Court Clinic conducts different levels of assessments, which are called Consultations. The information gathered during a consultation is provided via testimony at a hearing, allowing parties, counsel and the Court to question the Court Clinician.
On Call Consultation
The Court Clinic provides limited consultation services when more immediate assistance is required.
Brief Consultation
The Court Clinic provides brief consultation services based upon specific referral questions and identified issues for cases where less immediate assistance is required.
Scheduled Consultation
The Court Clinic provides more extensive consultation services based upon specific referral questions and identified issues for cases that have multiple and/or chronic issues, but do not require immediate assistance.
Advisory Consultation
Currently infrequently available because of the lack of psychological testing, a key component of an Advisory Consultation. Acceptance of referrals is determined in consultation with the Family Court Presiding Judge.
Contact
Timothy Reed, LCSW, Director
Phone: 505-841-7409
albdcourtclinic@nmcourts.xyz
Serving Doña Ana Co.; includes Las Cruces
Assists with development of Parenting Plans.
Services available to help resolve these case types: environmental issues, contract disputes, collection cases, real estate, foreclosure, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, tort auto, tort (negligence), construction law, product liability, probate litigation, civil rights/discrimination, commercial cases.
Only available for cases where the only relief sought is money in an amount that does not exceed $25k.
Service available for one complex case: the Lower Rio Grande Water Rights Adjudication — a case involving over 18,000 defendants for which the NM Office of the State Engineer is the Plaintiff.
Contact
Lilyana Atencio, Program Manager
Phone: 575-528-8305
lcrd-mediation@nmcourts.xyz
Child Abuse and Neglect Mediation
Assists with plans for family treatment & reunification (or termination of rights), child safety & wellbeing.
Open Adoptions Mediation
Assists with plans for family transition, schedules for contact and child safety & wellbeing.
Serving Mora, San Miguel, and Guadalupe Counties; includes Las Vegas & Santa Rosa
Assists with development of Parenting Plans for custody and/or visitation
Provides brief, focused child custody evaluations
Provides comprehensive child custody evaluations
Serving Chaves, Eddy, and Lea Counties; includes Roswell, Carlsbad, Hobbs & Lovington
Assists with development of Parenting Plans. Court ordered, as needed.
A licensed psychologist educates litigants on reducing the emotional impact of the case on the children.
Divorce & Paternity [mandatory]
Mediation is encouraged to work cooperatively on Parenting Plan.
Children’s Court
Phone: 575-622-0536
Child Abuse and Neglect Mediation
Assists with plans for family treatment & reunification (or termination of rights), child safety & wellbeing.
Open Adoptions Mediation
Assists with plans for family transition, schedules for contact and child safety & wellbeing.
Serving Grant, Luna, and Hidalgo Counties; includes Silver City, Deming & Lordsburg
Assists with development of Parenting Plans.
Provided by Judges for complex cases.
Mediation provided using restorative justice techniques for cases involving Criminal & Delinquent Youth.
Child Abuse and Neglect Mediation
Assists with plans for family treatment & reunification (or termination of rights), child safety & wellbeing.
Open Adoptions Mediation
Assists with plans for family transition, schedules for contact and child safety & wellbeing.
Serving Catron, Socorro, and Sierra Counties; includes T or C, Socorro & Reserve
Child Abuse and Neglect Mediation
Assists with plans for family treatment & reunification (or termination of rights), child safety & wellbeing.
Open Adoptions Mediation
Assists with plans for family transition, schedules for contact and child safety & wellbeing.
Serving Taos, Colfax, and Union Counties; includes Springer, Raton & Clayton
Assists with development of Parenting Plans.
Civil and Probate cases
Contact
Sally Margolin, ADR Coordinator
Phone: 575-770-8536
Child Abuse and Neglect Mediation
Assists with plans for family treatment & reunification (or termination of rights), child safety & wellbeing
Open Adoptions Mediation
Assists with plans for family transition, schedules for contact and child safety & wellbeing
Serving Curry and Roosevelt Counties; includes Clovis & Portales
Child Abuse and Neglect Mediation
Assists with plans for family treatment & reunification (or termination of rights), child safety & wellbeing.
Open Adoptions Mediation
Assists with plans for family transition, schedules for contact and child safety & wellbeing.
Serving Harding, Quay and De Baca Counties; includes Roy, Tucumcari & Ft. Sumner
Child Abuse and Neglect Mediation
Assists with plans for family treatment & reunification (or termination of rights), child safety & wellbeing
Open Adoptions Mediation
Assists with plans for family transition, schedules for contact and child safety & wellbeing
Serving San Juan and McKinley Counties; includes Farmington & Gallup
Assistance with complex water rights cases.
Assists with Parenting Plan development.
Child Abuse and Neglect Mediation
Assists with plans for family treatment & reunification (or termination of rights), child safety & wellbeing.
Open Adoptions Mediation
Assists with plans for family transition, schedules for contact and child safety & wellbeing.
Serving Lincoln and Otero Counties; includes Carrizozo, Ruidoso & Alamogordo
All civil cases, assists parties to reach agreements.
Child Abuse and Neglect Mediation
Assists with plans for family treatment & reunification (or termination of rights), child safety & wellbeing.
Open Adoptions Mediation
Assists with plans for family transition, schedules for contact and child safety & wellbeing.
Serving Cibola, Sandoval, and Valencia counties
Available for all civil cases.
Available for all civil cases.
Special Foreclosure services (in Sandoval & Valencia Counties only).
Assists with development of Parenting Plans, division of debt & property.
Family Law Docket Days
Once per month, people without attorneys receive a free mediation session to address the issues, above.
Advisory Consultations
Provides a brief assessment and written summary of the parenting situation, positions, and family relationships with suggestions for treatment plans and actions.
Contact
Hannah Bell
Phone: 505-867-2376 ext. 1172
berdhbb@nmcourts.xyz
Child Abuse and Neglect Mediation
Assists with plans for family treatment & reunification (or termination of rights), child safety & wellbeing.
Open Adoptions Mediation
Assists with plans for family transition, schedules for contact and child safety & wellbeing.
