Announcement: Chip Rose Receives Academy of Professional Family Mediators Lifetime Achievement Award at APFM’s 2018 Conference in San Diego!

Chip Rose is a highly experienced divorce mediator previously based in Santa Cruz, California and recently moved to Bend, Oregon.  Chip founded The Mediation Center in Santa Cruz in 1980 and is certified as a Specialist in Family Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. In a client-centered process that is completely confidential, Chip has successfully mediated more than 5,000 cases to successful and affordable agreement.  He continues to serve clients in California through video conferencing, text and email communications.

Chip has pioneered client-centered dispute resolution services for more than 3 decades.  Chip's primary emphasis is on offering top flight divorce and family mediation services for marriage and domestic partnerships.

Chip also provides facilitative services for pre-marital and domestic partnership agreements, family business and business succession, business partnership formation and disagreements, and negotiation and mediation consultation for pro se litigants.

Chip offers a free initial consultation.  Please call Chip at 831-251-4451 or use our contact form to schedule an initial consultation.

Here is a short video clip in which Chip discusses his decision to become a full time professional family mediator and to create a process that gave clients control the process, control of the cost, and control of the outcome of their agreements during that most difficult time of divorce: