Heidi Stewart
Asheville, North Carolina 28801
United States
Profession(s)
Lawyer, MediatorMy firm focuses its practice in wills and estate planning, family law matters, including divorce, child custody, equitable distribution of marital property, adoptions, guardianships and elder issues, corporate formations and transactions, and other business and contract matters. Former Assistant Director of The Mediation Center, Inc. in Asheville, N.C.. A volunteer Arbitrator and Mediator with the Better Business Bureau of Western North Carolina, our firm also offers Alternative Dispute Resolution Services such as Superior Court Mediations, Family Financial Mediations and Collaborative Law. We take pride in providing personal, approachable, services to each of our clients.
Professional Activities
- Past President - N.C. 28th Judicial District Bar Association ~Member-Family Law Division - N.C. Bar Association - Member National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys ~Volunteer - Better Business Bureau of Western North Carolina - Autoline Arbitrator & Mediator ~Member - WNC Collaborative Law Practice Group - Past President - Asheville Club 436 - Toastmasters International ~~Fellow - N.C. Institute of Political Leadership ~Graduate - Leadership Asheville, NC - 2001 ~ ~Undergraduate Education
Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC - BA-History/Political Science 1992
Postgraduate Education
North Carolina Central School of Law, Durham, NC - Juris Doctor Degree earned 1995
Professional Education
North Carolina Central School of Law, Durham, NC - Juris Doctor Degree earned 1995
Ongoing Continued Legal Education Courses
Basic Collaborative Practice for Family Lawyers
Basic Collaborative Practice for Therapists
Basic Collaborative Practice for Financial Professionals
Intro to Collaborative Law for Therapists - Hendersonville, NC 10/28/2016 (WNC Collaborative Law Group)
Intro to Collaborative Law for Therapists - Asheville, NC 9/27/2016 (WNC Collaborative Law Group)
Trusts 101 - Asheville, NC - 12/15/2016 (National Business Institute)
Protecting Assets While Qualifying for Medicaid - 6/9/2016 (National Business Institute)
Medicaid Update 2011 - 6/13/2011 (National Business Institute)
Top 10 Estate Planning Techniques - 4/27/2009 (National Business Institute)
How to Handle Impasse in Collaborative Family Law matters - 2009 (Co-Presenter -IACP Conference in San Francisco, CA)
Basic Collaborative Practice for Family Lawyers
Basic Collaborative Practice for Therapists
Basic Collaborative Practice for Financial Professionals
Theresa Weber, Esq.
Prince, Youngblood & Massagee, PLLC
240 Third Ave. East
Hendersonville, NC 28739
(828) 692-2595
Sarah Olson, Esq.
Asheville Mediation, LLC
171 Charlotte Street
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 215-9992
Comments
I see the growing interest in collaborative law and divorce practice as a positive step in helping families to move through, what can be a very emotional and hurtful process with the knowledge that they have a team of professionals who are there to help them to get through the process in a way that will, hopefully, allow them to maintain their self-respect, mitigate the damage to what relationship there remains between the parties and to focus on how to move forward into the future with the knowledge that they did all they could to speak up and advocate for themselves and to do what was in the best interest of themselves and their children.