Idaho’s court-approved family mediators.
Every mediator below is on the Idaho Supreme Court’s own roster of approved child custody mediators. Attorneys, CDFAs and therapists aren’t listed yet — Idaho’s licensing systems can’t currently be checked from outside a browser, and we won’t list a credential we haven’t verified. The reasons are spelled out below.
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Every professional below is at the Listed tier: credentials independently verified from an official Idaho source, included whether or not they’ve heard of The Cusp — the same way a court roster works. Nobody paid for placement, and nobody here has published pricing or been reviewed yet.
What “verified” means on this page
Not every check is the same check, and most directories hide that. Every listing below says which kind it was, and the date we did it — because a license check is a photograph, not a guarantee. Somebody confirmed in August can be suspended in September.
- State registerChecked against the state’s own licensing, court or bar record.
- Issuing bodyChecked against the organization that grants this credential — authoritative for the credential, but it is their own list.
- Membership listingA membership directory. Joining is voluntary, and this is not a license check.
- Self-reportedTaken from this person’s own website. Nobody independent confirmed it, and we are re-checking these against an official register.
- Source linkedChecked against the source linked, which is not a state register.
Nobody paid to be listed here, and nobody can. Listings are not for sale, and no professional on this page has paid us anything to appear on it or to appear higher on it. If we are ever paid in connection with anyone listed here, it will say so on this page, next to that listing. Most of these were confirmed against a state register. A small number were not, and rather than quietly presenting those as equivalent, they are marked and we are re-checking them.
Certified mediators
Verified via an official court-connected or state-recognized mediator roster.
Not included yet. Attorneys: No Idaho attorneys are listed yet, and the reason is a fault on the state’s side rather than a shortage of lawyers. The Idaho State Bar’s roster search is only a front page — the actual records live on two other state systems, and neither can currently be reached safely. One is unreachable entirely; the other serves a security certificate issued for a different web address altogether ("*.tyleridaho.com" rather than the state’s own domain), so the connection can’t be trusted. We won’t fall back on commercial lawyer directories, which aren’t official sources and are usually pay-to-appear. You can still search the roster by hand at isb.idaho.gov/licensing-mcle/attorney-roster-search/.
Not included yet. Therapists: No Idaho therapists are listed. Idaho’s license checker publishes machine-access rules that explicitly forbid automated retrieval, and we respect that rather than work around it. Two related state addresses don’t resolve at all. We won’t substitute the federal provider registry, because that records a national provider number, not a current Idaho license. To check someone by hand, use edopl.idaho.gov/OnlineServices/?link=PubSearch.
Not included yet. CDFAs: No Idaho CDFAs could be confirmed. IDFA’s directory sits behind a "prove you’re human" check we don’t work around, and the one Idaho profile that had been indexed has since been removed by IDFA itself.
Not included yet. Mediators: Verified, but not exhaustive. The Supreme Court’s roster is paginated and only the first page could be read reliably — the downloadable version is a dead link. Mediators based in Pocatello, Twin Falls, Moscow and Lewiston couldn’t be enumerated. Note that three of the five below are approved to serve all 44 Idaho counties, so practical coverage is wider than the county labels suggest.
What these professionals typically cost in Idaho
Idaho falls in the West region on The Cusp’s cost model — illustrative, member-reported ranges, not an official fee survey or a quote.
| Item | Reported range |
|---|---|
| Attorney, uncontested | $1,200–$4,000 |
| Attorney, contested | $6,000–$28,000+ |
| Mediator, full case | $120–$400/hr |
See the main directory page for the full regional cost breakdown across all four professional types.
Know someone in Idaho who needs this?
Sending one person a straight answer about money is more useful than most advice. Nothing here asks for their real name, and nobody finds out they looked.
Doing your own Idaho filing instead?
The Idaho Divorce Kit has the exact forms, deadlines, and rejection traps for your county.
The rest of what we have written about Idaho. Every figure is quoted from Idaho’s own statute or its courts’ own published schedule, and carries the date we last checked it.
Everybody on this page charges for their time. If money is the constraint — and for most people reading this it is — these two come first, and we earn nothing from either.
- Idaho Legal Aid Services, Inc. — free civil legal help for people who qualify on income.
- Idaho Supreme Court — Court Assistance Office / Self-Help — the court’s own self-help material, free to everybody regardless of income.
Divorce coaches are not in this directory, and here is why
Everyone above holds a license a state regulator can take away. “Divorce coach” is not a protected title — in Idaho or anywhere else — so there is no license to check and no regulator to check it with.
We read each certifying body’s own website looking for one thing: a published route by which a coach can lose the credential. Of the three divorce-specific credentials we examined, not one publishes a disciplinary process a client could actually use.
That is not a reason never to hire one. A coach is cheaper than a lawyer for the things that are not legal problems, and a great deal of what costs people money in a divorce is not a legal problem. It is a reason to know what the credential does and does not mean before you pay anybody.
What the credential actually means · What to ask before you pay · How this directory is ordered
Every agent we introduce in Idaho is divorce-trained and vetted
Most agents are competent and most have never handled a divorce sale — two clients who may not be speaking, a court order neither was told about, a closing date somebody else controls. So we do not list agents. We introduce one, and only after they have cleared four things:
- a license we checked ourselves with the regulator, with no unresolved discipline;
- six closed sales in the last two years, from their own MLS records;
- 4.7 or better across every site they are reviewed on, at least ten reviews;
- our divorce real estate training and its twenty-question assessment.
Then we check on you, not on them — at seven days and again at six months.
Ask for an introduction* · The standards in full · Four questions to ask any agent · Agents: get certified
* Hyleri, who writes this site, is a licensed agent with Compass and may receive a referral fee from the introduced agent’s commission if a sale completes — never added to what you pay. How we make money.