Natalie M. Snyder - Carmel, IN

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2001
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1998
    B.A.
    Honors: With Honors
    Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
    Major: Communications/Public Relations
    Minor: Political Science

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Past Positions

• Bingham & McHale, 2007 - 2011
• The Nice Law Firm, 2006 - 2007
• Kiefer & McGoff, 2003 - 2006
• Hayes, Copenhaver & Crider, 2001 - 2003

Classes and Seminars

• Family Systems: A Primer Seminar – 2025
  
• Family Law Master’s Series, 2024
  
• Collaborative Mediation - Engaging Mediators in the Collaborative Process, 2024
  
• Grappling with No: Children Declining Treatment in the Age of Consent, 2024
  
• Reunification Therapy Training – 2024
  
• Equal Parenting Time in Practice and Policy – 2024
  
• New Developments in Military Pension Division: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  
• Parent Child Contact Problems: Family Violence and Parental Alienation – Either/or, Neither/nor, Both/and, One in the Same? – 2023
  
• Substance Use and Co-Parenting: Critical Considerations and Strategies for Family Law Professionals
  
• Family Law, Alcohol Monitoring Best Practices, 2023
  
• Coping Abilities Children Need (And How to Ensure They Get Them) - 2023
  
• Developing Functional Collaborative Teams
  
• Hope: The Essence of The Collaborative Process
  
• The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Court-Involved Children – 2022
  
• What to Do When Your Child Doesn’t Want to Go to Their Other Parent’s Home – 2022
  
• Is it Just a Word Game? The Dangers of Concept Creep in Family Law – 2022
  
• The Power of Values in Family Law Disputes – 2022
  
• Children’s Voices in Cases Involving Parent-Child Contact Problems, 2022
  
• Reunification Therapy Workshop, 2021
  
• Shared Parenting Research, 2020
  
• Drug and Alcohol Testing and Child Custody Cases and Parenting Agreements
  
• Encapsulated Delusion? How Do We Identify It, 2020
  
• Contact with Children in a Covid World, 2020
  
• Clinical and Forensic Practice in a Covid World, 2020
  
• Overcoming the Alienation Crisis: A Team Model, 2020
  
• From Needs to Resolution: Non-Violent Communication and Negotiation, 2020
  
• Betting on the Voice of the Child in Parenting Disputes, 2020
  
• Teens in the Digital World What Professionals Need to Know, 2020
  
• Resisting Simplicity to Understand Child Resistance- Alienation Meaning in the Field of Family Law, 2020
  
• Speaker on Why to Choose Collaborative Law as Your Divorce Process, 2020
  
• The Unique Role of the Child Specialist in Collaborative Practice, 2020
  
• Are We Listening? What Collaborative Clients Say They Want, 2020
  
• Meet the Magistrates and Commissioners, 2020
  
• Sociopaths: The Con Artists of Family Law, 2020
  
• Concepts, Controversies, and Conundrums of Parent-Child Contact Problems, 2020
  
• Parenting Coordinator Role in Selection of Therapist, 2020
  
• Interdisciplinary Cooperation in High Conflict Shared Custody, 2020
  
• Mental Health Practitioners’ and Judicial Officers’ Perspectives on Helpful and Less Helpful Attorney Approaches and Practices in Parent Conflict Litigation, 2019
  
• Collaborative Practice for the Middle Class, 2019
  
• Ethics In Depositions, 2019
  
• Reunification Therapy, 2019
  
• Can You Hear Me? Using the Child’s Voice to Settle Custody Disputes, 2019
  
• Sociopaths: The Con Artists of Family Law, 2019
  
• Anatomy of a Child’s Views and Preferences, 2019
  
• Family Justice Innovation The Future of Family Justice: An International Perspective, 2019
  
• Defending Individualized Best Interests in the Shared Parenting Debate, 2019
  
• Understanding Infant Mental Health within the Judicial System, 2019
  
• Set Another Place at the Table: Child Voice in Family Law Cases, 2019
  
• Finding a Post-Divorce Path for Teens, 2018
  
• Evidence Based Practice in Family Law: Improving Our Programs to Help Children, 2018
  
• Diagnostic Tests for Parental Alienation vs. Estrangement, 2018
  
• Evidentiary Issues Regarding Custody Evaluators and Guardian Ad Litems, 2018
  
• What’s the Judge Got to Do with It?, 2018
  
• Resilience-Informed Family Law: Building Parenting Plans on Systemic Strengths, 2018
  
• Interviewing Adolescents: How to Talk So Teens Will Answer, 2018
  
• Trauma-Informed in the Trenches, 2018
  
• Toward a Trauma-Responsive System of Justice: Untangling Trauma from Drama, 2018
  
• Entrenched Post-Separation Parenting Disputes: The Rule of Interparental Hatred, 2018
  
• Parenting Coordination Pitfalls and Practical Application, 2018
  
• How to Prevent & Respond to International Parental Kidnapping, the Hague Convention and Other Remedies, 2018
  
• Integration of Mental Health and Legal Services in Custody and Parenting Time Disputes, 2018
  
• Ask a Judge, 2018
  
• Checking in on Family Law Apps: Digital Evidence in Custody Disputes, 2018
  
• Preventing Contact Failure and Alienation: A Multidisciplinary Program, 2018
  
• Guardian Ad Litem, 2017
  
• Negotiating and Mediating with High Conflict Personalities, 2017
  
• Drafting Marital Settlement Agreements, 2017
  
• Electronic Discovery, 2017
  
• Indiana Family Law Cases, 2017
  
• Dealing with Medical and Mental Health Records and Examinations, 2017
  
• Ask a Judge, 2017
  
• Reunification Therapy for Parent-Child Contact Problems, 2017
  
• Advanced Issues and New Approaches in Working with High-Conflict Families, 2017
  
• Working with Personality Disorders in Family Law, 2017
  
• Special Considerations for Teenagers in Family Law, 2017
  
• New Developments in Military Pension Division: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, 2017
  
• Digital Evidence, 2017
  
• Update on Parenting Coordination Guidelines and Practices, 2017
  
• Addiction in the Family: What About the Children, 2017
  
• The Cost of Conflict and Containment Strategies to Protect Children, 2017
  
• Addressing Complex Child Interests in Peacemaking Processes, 2017
  
• When are Children Ready to Speak, When are Parents Ready to Hear in Family Law, 2017
  
• Sometimes You Just Gotta Go to Court, When to Involve Adjudication, 2017
  
• How to Deal with Clinical Issues, Clinical Evidence, and Clinical Experts, 2017
  
• How to Balance Stepfamilies and Families of Origin, 2017
  
• Research and How to Work with High Conflict Families, Including Rejection, Alienation, Estrangement, and Personality Disorders, 2017
  
• Resolving Conflict through Online Dispute Resolution, 2017
  
• How to Value Intellectual Property in Divorce Cases, 2017
  
• How to Value and Use Trusts in Your Divorce, 2016
  
• Challenges When Dividing Low Asset Marital Estates in Collaborative, 2015 - Present
  
• When The Going Gets Tough: Resources and Advice for High Conflict Family Cases, 2015 - Present
  
• Children and Sexual Behavior: What is Normal and When Should We Be Concerned, 2015 - Present
  
• Handling Real Estate Issues, 2011 - Present
  
• Handling Divorce Cases from Start to Finish, 2011 - Present
  
• Trial Practice in Family Law, 2011 - Present
  
• Divorce and Custody Issues: Law Updates, Assessment, and Treatment, 2011 - Present
  
• Estate Planning and Family Law, 2011 - Present
  
• Relocation of Children, 2011 - Present
  
• Indiana Adoption, 2011 - Present
  
• Transitions: Single to Married, Married to Single, and Generation to Generation, 2010 - Present
  
• Legal Ethics, 2009 - 2011
  
• New Child Support Guidelines, 2010 - Present
  
• Property Division Issues in Dissolution of Cohabitant Partnerships, 2009 - Present
  
• What Factors Most Influence Custody Determinations, 2009 - Present
  
• Issues in Relocation, 2010 - Present
  
• Alternatives to Custody Litigation, 2006 - 2007
  
• Stock Options, 2007 - Present
  
• Update on Electronic Discovery, 2007 - Present
  
• Protective Orders, 2006 - Present
  
• 2025 Indiana AFCC Child Informed Mediation Training
  
• Substance Use and Its Impact on Families – Do we really know what we think we know? 2025

Published Works

Articles

• When is Custodial Parent's Relocation Grounds for Change in Custody in Indiana and Illinois, Indiana Lawyer, Family Law Section, 2005
  
• Custody in Indiana and Illinois, Indiana Lawyer, 2006
  

Bar Admissions

• Indiana, 2001
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana, 2001
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana, 2001

Specialties and Certifications

• Certified Family Law Specialist, Family Law Certification Board, 2009
• Certified Family Mediator , Family Law Certification Board, 2019

Other Affiliations

• Indianapolis Bar Association (Past Board Member)
• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts – Indiana Chapter Past President and Board Member, 2009-2021
• Central Indiana Association of Collaborative Professionals (Board of Directors, Past President and Member)
• American Bar Association, 2001 - Present (Member, Family Law Section)
• Indiana State Bar Association, Family Law Section, 2001 - Present (Member)
• Indiana State Bar Association, 2002 - 2004 (Past Member Delegate)
• Indianapolis Bar Association, 2004 - Present (Past Chair and Member, Family Law Section)
• Indianapolis Bar Foundation , 2011 - Present (Distinguished Fellow)
• Indianapolis Bar Association Bar leader Series III
• Sagamore Inns of Court (Past Member)
• Henry County Bar Association, 2001 - 2003 (Treasurer)
• Wesley W. Ratliff, Jr. & Alva A. Cox American Inns of Court, 2001 - 2003 (Member)
• National Association of Women Business Owners, 2008 - 2011 (Indianapolis Chapter)
• Bingham McHale Women's Forum, 2008 - 2011
• Impact 100, 2010 (Member, Family Committee)
• Business Networking Institute, 2009 - Present (Member, Past Officer)
• Heartland Pro Bono Volunteer, 2004 - 2010 (Protective Order Project Chair)
• Collaborative Solutions, Collaborative Practice Group

Fraternities and Sororities

• Delta Gamma