Maribeth Blessing

Ms. Blessing’s law practice is concentrated in Family Law, but her firm also handles, Wills, and all Alternative Dispute Resolution Out of Court Processes (Arbitration, Mediation and Collaborative Law, Parental Coordination) with offices located at 310 Huntingdon Pike, Rockledge. She is a member of the Fellows of the American Bar Association, former President and current practitioner with Collaborative Family Law Affiliates and member of International Academy of Collaborative Practitioners and the Collaborative Family Law committee of the PA Bar Association. Additionally, Ms. Blessing is member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts where she trained as a Parent Coordinator, and a member of the Parent Coordination subcommittee of the Family Law Section. She is a member of Strathmore’s Who’s Who, receiving the 2007 Professional of the Year Award in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Ms. Blessing is a life member of the National Registry of Who’s Who, and Honored member of Continental Who’s Who. She was awarded an Outstanding Service Award by Widener School of Law in 2003 and 2012 Woman of the Year Award by the National Association of Professional Women. Ms. Blessing has received appointments from the Montgomery Bench as Arbitrator, Special Master and Guardian Ad Litem. She is an active Child Advocate for MCAP. As a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section, Ms. Blessing is a former Council member and has served as the Liaison between the PBA Family Law Committee and the PBA Children’s Rights Committee for over five years. She is a member of the PBA Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and on the Legislative Sub-committees of the PA Bar Children’s Rights Committee and Family Law Section. Ms. Blessing is a past President of the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court and now serves as Counselor. Additionally, she was a member of the MBA Judiciary Committee, a Director for the Montgomery Bar Association, is a member of the Bench Bar and Women in Law committees, and the Montgomery County Bar Trial Lawyers Section as well as former Chair of the Family Law Section and continuing active member.

Ms. Blessing also offers diversified mediation (concentrating in family and elder mediation) and arbitration services through Maribeth Blessing, Mediation & Arbitration, L.L.C. Ms. Blessing is an Advanced Practitioner with the Association of Conflict Resolution with training completed at the National Center for Mediation Education. She was also a member of the board of directors of ACR-Delaware Valley Chapter, a member of Pennsylvania Council of Mediators,, as well as a court approved member of the Mediation Advisory Panel for Montgomery County since 1999 and one of four approved Supervisory Mediators in Montgomery County. She was affiliated with Divorce Done Right and was featured on the Channel 6, ABC nightly news and in the March 2007 issue of Philadelphia Magazine, in the article, “The Divorce Posse.” She is former Chair and continuing member of the Montgomery Bar Mediation Committee of the Family Law Section. Ms. Blessing received arbitration training from the American Bar Association Section of Family Law.

Ms. Blessing has served in roles as speaker, author, presenter, and course planner for the PBA/PBI, Montgomery Bar Association, National Business Institute, Doris Jonas Freed Inn of Court, Montgomery County Mediation Center, individual programs continuing legal and mediation education, and presentations for the general public, rotary groups, and organizations over the course of her legal and alternative dispute career.

Among Ms. Blessing’s numerous recognitions and awards are the following:

• * 2014 to Present- Super Lawyers List; Featured in May 2014, Pennsylvania & Delaware “Super Lawyers Magazine;
• * 2014 to Present- Top Attorneys in Pennsylvania; Featured in June, 2014 “Philadelphia Magazine”
• * 2014 -2023 “10 Best” Attorney Award for Pennsylvania; American Institute of Family Law Attorneys