Profile Introduction
Terri started her career as a trial attorney, handling primarily real estate and family law litigation. Later she worked as an in-house corporate attorney for Lewis Homes, a real estate development company in the Inland Empire.
Ms. Breer prefers to solve her clients legal problems through negotiated settlements, rather than through the litigation process. This was particularly true with respect to her family law practice and she has a goal of settling family law disputes without litigation whenever possible. In 1994 she returned to Pepperdine University and completed family law mediation training at the Strauss Institute of Dispute Resolution and began her mediation practice in 1994. She completed Collaborative Divorce Training (CDT) in February 2004.
Ms. Breers mediation practice includes mediation services for both husband and wife as a neutral facilitator and transformative mediator. She often engages other divorce professionals to assist her mediation clients, including financial planners, business and real estate appraisers, family and couples therapists, divorce coaches, and co-parenting specialists to assist her clients in making wise decisions for their families as they work towards settling their marital disputes through the mediation process.
Terri Breer (Attorney)
Areas of Practice
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Child Custody and Visitation
- Child Support and Alimony
- Collaborative Divorce
- Collaborative Law
- Collaborative Practice
- Cooperative Divorce
- Co-Parenting Issues & Visitation
- Divorce Mediation
- Family Law
- Mediation
- Paternity
- Property
- Relocation
- Support Issues & Property Division
Education
- University of Southern California
- Pepperdine University
Professional Activities
- In addition to her membership in Orange County Divorce Solutions, she is a member of the International Association of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) and has participated in the IACP Conference in Boston in 2004, Atlanta in 2005, San Diego in 2006 and the Second Annual State-wide Conference of Collaborative Practice California in 2007. She has led workshops on various alternative dispute models for divorce and legal aspects of divorce for University of California, Irvine (UCI) Extension, Womens Opportunity Center in Fall 2006 and Spring 2007. She has also lectured for the Divorce Recovery Workshop on the issue of parental alienation and other co-parenting issues.
Professional Licenses
- State Bar of California