
Robin Graine, JD, CDFA


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11325 Random Hills Rd
Suite 360
Fairfax, VA 22030
USA
571-220-1998





Description of Practice

Virtually Serving All of Virginia with Video Conference Mediation
Graine Mediation, the less-expensive alternative to litigation, provides divorce & custody mediation services for couples who need help negotiating their terms & drafting their settlement agreements.
Robin Graine, JD, CDFA (Certified Divorce Financial Analyst) has nearly 20 years experience as a mediator, divorce coach, divorce lawyer, & family law hearing officer. Since opening Northern Virginia's preeminent mediation service in 2009, Graine Mediation has helped hundreds of families settle their divorces.
Robin can help you:
- find effective ways to communicate
- separate emotions from finance
- make a smooth transition from married to single life
- set the stage for effective co-parenting in two separate homes
- make informed and fair settlement decisions based on the law, the tax code, financial planning principals, and latest research on the effect of divorce on children.
- financially sophisticated fact patterns
- military and federal government benefit divisions
- contested custody
- upside-down real estate matters
- out-of-state custody arrangements
- employee stock plans
- small business concerns
- retirement asset division
- "gray divorces"
- career transitions for stay-at-home moms
- cases where grounds are at issue (adultery,cruelty,dese
Professional Background
Prior to becoming a divorce and family mediator, Robin worked 7 years as a Divorce Attorney and Guardian Ad Litem (children's legal advocate) in the Chicago Circuit and Juvenile Court Systems. Her career also includes a 3-year judicial appointment as a Child Support and Child Abuse Hearing Officer. Since 2009, Robin Graine, JD, CDFA has owned Graine Mediation, a practice exclusively focused on Divorce and Family Mediation, in Fairfax, Virginia.
Robin has also achieved the high honor of Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA), a nationally recognized and rigorous course of study and examinations which tests knowledge of divorce-related financial planning, tax, and legal principals.
Degrees
BA, Virginia Commonwealth University (1986)
Training
Dates | Trainer(s) | Title |
2014 | Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts | Certified Divorce Financial Analyst |
2010 | Northern Virginia Mediation Service | Circuit Court-Family; Juv. & Dom. Rel. |
2009 | Northern Virginia Mediation Service | General District Court |
1994 | Center for Conflict Resolution (Chicago) | Family Mediator |
Approach
Fees
Areas of Practice
- Divorce (all issues)
- Divorce (parenting)
- Family
- Online Family/Divorce
- Online Mediation
Professional Services
- Mediator
- Certified Divorce Financial Analyst
- Mediating Lawyer
- Facilitator
- Online Mediator