Maridell Templeton
Parenting Coordinator

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Maridell Templeton
Parenting Coordinator
P.O. Box 38185
Dallas, TX 75238-0185
214-343-6274

maridellt@hotmail.com

Maridell Templeton, Parenting Coordinator

Maridell Templeton is a Dallas based lawyer who has been practicing family law in Texas for more than 30 years. Because of her excellent communications skills, tremendous common sense, and realistic approach to finding solutions when helping individuals to resolve long-standing conflict, Maridell Templeton has all the traits necessary to be a helpful and successful parenting coordinator.

Maridell Templeton is fearless, insightful, realistic and fair-minded, as evidenced by the many family custody cases in which she has worked as Guardian ad Litem. She is a strategic thinker who maintains an overall picture of a situation and helps others to stay focused on essentials and to keep on track towards defined goals.

Maridell Templeton holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Oklahoma University and has completed a parenting coordinator course, as well as courses in family violence dynamics training. She is board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in family law. In addition, she has worked as a district attorney handling Child Protective Services cases.

Maridell Templeton has often worked with parties who are experiencing a high degree of conflict in their family law cases. She has the confidence of both lawyers and judges as an experienced representative of children in family law cases, including typical divorce cases, as well as cases in which children have been forcibly removed from a home experiencing parental conflict.

Maridell Templeton has the ability to be objective, a capacity to remain totally independent, and an aptitude for making a candid assessment of how behavior may be a contributing factor in a conflict. In short, Maridell Templeton is highly qualified to be a Parenting Coordinator.

Education and Training

  • Member, AFCC - Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

  • CRC SEMINAR, Parenting Coordination Training, March 10-11,2006

  • TDFPS/CPS/CJA Mediation Training, May 2005,
    Dispute Resolution Center, Harris Co., Tx

  • Texas Wesleyan University, 40 Hour Mediation Training, 1992

  • East Texas State University, 24 Hour Family Law Mediation Training, 1992

  • Board Certified in Family Law, 1984

  • B.A. in psychology, Oklahoma University, 1965

  • J.D. Southern Methodist University, 1964

  • B.A. in psychology, Oklahoma University, 1961

Experience

  • Private Practice

  • Adjunct professor, family law and juvenile law, Texas Wesleyan School of Law

  • Assistant District Attorney, Appellate Section and Juvenile Section

  • Practice before

    • the Texas Courts of Civil Appeals

    • the Texas Supreme Court

    • the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and

    • the United States Supreme Court

  • Contract negotiator and administrator at Texas Instruments

  • Adjunct professor, of government, EI Centro College, and

  • Title Examiner

How to Contact Maridell Templeton

Feel free to contact Maridell Templeton through telephone, mail, and e-mail so that she and her office may be able to answer any questions you may have.

  • Maridell Templeton, Parenting Coordinator

  • P.O. Box 38185

  • Dallas, TX 75238-0185
     

  • Telephone: 214-343-6274
     

  • E-mail: maridellt@hotmail.com


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