About Maribeth
Maribeth Blessing brings many years of work on the intersection of family law and alternative dispute resolution. She completed a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and Spanish at Kutztown University in 1970, pursued graduate study in studying handicapped schooling at Santa Clara University in 1981, and earned her J.D. from Widener University Delaware School of Law in 1991.
Her professional legal career started in the early 1990s. In 1992 she worked at Gold-Bikin, Clifford & Young. By 1996 she was the government director of the Center for Matrimonial Dispute Resolution at the Law Offices of Leslee Tabas. Since 1999 she has operated the Law Offices of Maribeth Blessing and Maribeth Blessing Mediation & Arbitration, the place she serves as lawyer, mediator, arbitrator and parent coordinator.
Blessing has maintained lively bar memberships across state and federal forums. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and is admitted to the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Her membership within the Pennsylvania State Bar dates to 1991, and she has been active in expert groups ever since.
Her involvement in bar and dispute resolution organizations runs deep. She has been part of the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court as president and grasp, and she or he led the Collaborative Law Affiliates of Southeastern Pennsylvania as its president for five years and continues as a member and attorney liaison. She holds club within the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals and the Association of Family Conciliation Courts, and she or he is listed as a complicated practitioner in mediation with the Association of Conflict Resolution. Locally, she sits at the Montgomery Mediation Advisory Panel and has served at the Montgomery Bar Association’s Board of Directors and Bench Bar things to do.
Outside paid practice she has taken on pro bono roles. Since 2010 she has served as a baby recommend in Montgomery County. Since 2018 she has been affiliated with the Center for Peaceful Resolution. Those roles mirror long-status curiosity in resolving disputes outdoor the courtroom and in promoting baby-centered strategies in custody things.
Colleagues and clients come upon a practitioner who combines courtroom information with mediation skills and parental coordination knowledge. She handles matrimonial dispute decision, custody and parenting time things, collaborative regulation processes, and associated alternative dispute decision work. Her current practice concentrates on facilitated negotiation, binding dispute resolution, collaborative regulation and mother or father coordination in family things.
