Hi, I’m Madelaine Martin.
I am an entrepreneur who refuses to follow the status quo, with ten years of experience streamlining systems across a variety of industries by doing just that.
After my first introduction to family mediation, I quickly began to see the limitations of the traditional process. Families were arriving at mediation emotionally, logistically, and financially unprepared to make consequential decisions about their futures—even when attorneys were involved.
So, I started looking upstream.
I asked what would happen if mediation did not begin at the negotiation table. What if families had time to organize the information, understand the decisions in front of them, identify what mattered most, and work through the questions underneath the conflict before they were asked to resolve it?
After many conversations, observations, and iterations, that question became the Fitz & Morri Method.
The Fitz & Morri Method
The Fitz & Morri Method changes where the work of mediation happens. Rather than asking families to gather information, identify priorities, evaluate proposals, and make consequential decisions within the same negotiation session, much of that work happens first.
Through private meetings, online conversations, reflective forms, and document review, each party receives an organized, source-supported foundation for their decisions: financial information is made visible, missing or conflicting information is identified, and each person has time to think deliberately about their priorities, concerns, and the practical realities of the choices ahead.
By the time negotiations begin, no one is deciding off the cuff. Each party comes to the conversation with the information, analysis, and priorities already in front of them—reducing the pressure to respond in the moment and creating the conditions for more confident, informed decisions.