Pennsylvania’s divorce professionals, verified.
Real attorneys, mediators, CDFAs and therapists — credentials checked against Pennsylvania’s own official directories, not paid placement.
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Every professional below is currently at the Listed tier: credentials independently verified from an official Pennsylvania source, automatically included whether they’ve opted into The Cusp or not — the same way a bar association directory works. Nobody here has paid for placement, and none of them have published pricing or been reviewed yet.
This page is weaker than the rest of the directory, and you should know that before you use it
Most state directories on this site were built from a state licensing board, court roster or bar record. This one largely was not. Nine of the listings below came from the professional’s own website — which tells you what they say about themselves, and nothing more. They are marked Self-reported.
That does not mean anyone here is unlicensed. It means we have not confirmed it, and we are not willing to let the word “verified” carry weight it has not earned. We are re-checking these against the Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board and the state’s license verification service, and this notice comes down when that is done. Until then: ask anyone you contact for their attorney ID or license number and check it yourself. It takes about two minutes and it is free.
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. Where an official register exists we re-check these, and where one does not, we say that instead.
- 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. This page was re-checked on 23 August 2026 against the Disciplinary Board’s own attorney register: ten of the eleven listings are now confirmed there by attorney ID, admission date and status. One could not be matched and says so on its own card. An earlier version of this page said nine listings rested on nothing but the professional’s own website. That was true when it was written and it is no longer true, and we would rather correct it in public than quietly.
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- Family law & divorce attorneys
- Certified mediators — Pennsylvania does not license mediators.
- Certified Divorce Financial Analysts (CDFAs) — Not included yet. Mediators: PA Council of Mediators and Mediation Council of Western PA directories are JS-rendered and returned no listings; county Court of Common Pleas approved-mediator rosters could not be located.
- What these professionals typically cost in Pennsylvania — See the main directory page for the full regional cost breakdown across all four professional types.
- Child & adolescent therapists — Pennsylvania's PALS license verification refused every automated request, and the Commonwealth sells its licensee list rather than publishing it.
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Family law & divorce attorneys
Every attorney below was checked against the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s own register — by attorney ID, admission date, current status and disciplinary history. Each name links to that record so you can read it yourself.
Certified mediators
Pennsylvania does not license mediators. There is no state register and no court-connected roster we could reach, so nobody can be confirmed as a mediator by any official body in this state — not here, not anywhere. What we could check is whether each person holds an active Pennsylvania attorney license, and two of the three do. Treat the word “mediator” as a description of what they do, not as a credential anyone verified.
Certified Divorce Financial Analysts (CDFAs)
Pulled from the Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts’ own public directory of credentialed CDFA professionals.
Not included yet. Attorneys: PA Bar Association ‘Find a Lawyer’ and PA Disciplinary Board ‘Look Up an Attorney’ could not be searched when we built this page; six of seven attorneys were sourced from their firms’ own bio pages rather than confirmed ‘Active’ status on the official lookup (one, Bliwas, was confirmed directly on a Disciplinary Board record page).
Not included yet. Mediators: PA Council of Mediators and Mediation Council of Western PA directories are JS-rendered and returned no listings; county Court of Common Pleas approved-mediator rosters could not be located. The three mediators listed come from one firm’s team page (Bucks County) rather than an official roster.
Not included yet. CDFAs: Only one PA CDFA profile could be located on institutedfa.com; the CDFA.net PA state list page errored on every fetch attempt and we found no additional profiles before our research ended.
Not included yet. Therapists: PA’s official license-verification tool (PALS, pals.pa.gov) could not be searched when we built this page, and our research ended before we found therapist names to check against it. Zero therapists verified.
What these professionals typically cost in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania falls in the Northeast region on The Cusp’s cost model — illustrative, member-reported ranges, not an official fee survey or a quote.
| Item | Reported range |
|---|---|
| Attorney, uncontested | $1,500–$4,500 |
| Attorney, contested | $8,000–$35,000+ |
| Mediator, full case | $150–$450/hr |
See the main directory page for the full regional cost breakdown across all four professional types.
Child & adolescent therapists
Nothing here yet, and we would rather show you an empty section than an unverified one. The reason is specific: Pennsylvania’s license verification service works fine, but it puts its public search behind a bot check, and we do not try to get around those. So we have no way to confirm a Pennsylvania therapist against the state board, and we are not going to list one on somebody’s own say-so. There are plenty of qualified child therapists in Pennsylvania; we just cannot verify them the way this site verifies everything else.
Pennsylvania’s PALS license verification refused every automated request, and the Commonwealth sells its licensee list rather than publishing it. We are working on it; in the meantime you can search PALS yourself at pals.pa.gov.
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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 Pennsylvania filing instead?
The Pennsylvania Divorce Kit has the exact forms, deadlines, and rejection traps for your county.
The rest of what we have written about Pennsylvania. Every figure is quoted from Pennsylvania’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.
- Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network / PALawHELP.org — free civil legal help for people who qualify on income.
- Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania — Representing Yourself — 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 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.