Susan Amato is an experienced domestic relations attorney and mediator. Since 1987, when she began her practice in mediation, she has made client satisfaction her first priority. She believes that when a couple enters a divorce process, it's important to support the parenting relationship, to preserve finances as much as possible and to work towards a successful post-divorce family system. This approach is the most positive and healthy way of addressing a very emotional and stressful time in your life.

Through her experience in maritial and family law matters, Ms. Amato has represented hundreds of individuals in a wide variety of issues relating to divorce, custody, domestic violence, and paternity mediation and litigation. She has an established reputation in dispute resolution with the focus of her practice on conflict resolution, particuarly mediation and collaborative law, and she offers these options to her clients as well as litigation.

Ms. Amato is a member of::

• Missouri Bar Association
• United States District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
• Women Lawyer's Association
• International Association of Collaborative Professionals.
• Academy of Family and Conciliation Courts – Serves on Local Planning Group - 2008, 2009
• Collaborative Family Law Association - St. Louis (Founding President - 2003-2005).
• Advanced Practitioner Member, Association for Conflict Resolution, Family Law Section.
• Association of Missouri Mediators (St. Louis Regional Director - 2006-2009).

Listed in: Best Lawyers in America, Collaborative Family Law and Family Law Mediation; St. Louis Magazine's Best Lawyer's in St. Louis in area of Collaborative Family Law and Family Law Mediation.

Ms. Amato  presents in the media and professional seminars in the area of Collaborative Family Law and is the recipient of the Missouri Lawyers Media Women’s Justice Award in the area of Citizenship (2009) for her work in alternative dispute resolution and collaborative family law.

Selected Publications:
"Collaborative Law: Good News, Bad News or No News?" The St. Louis Bar Journal Spring 2009: 24-31. (Reprinted with permission of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and The St. Louis Bar Journal.)

Radio/Audio Files
September 19, 2003 CFLA Professionals Alan Freed and Susan Amato interviewed by Tom Sudholt on 99.1 KFUO FM