REMINDER that TOMORROW I will be speaking at the Family & Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York!
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
ONLINE VIA ZOOM
12:00PM-1:30PM (Eastern Standard Time)
As laws around LGBTQ rights grow more uncertain, mediators play a vital role in helping families stay protected.
This session covers the essential legal tools LGBTQ clients need—from domestic partnerships and parentage proceedings to estate planning, retirement, and real estate. You'll walk away with a practical checklist and the clarity to mediate confidently, no matter the legal future.
Presented by:
Teresa Calabrese
Concetta G. Spirio
Moderated by:
Corey M. Shapiro
Concetta G. Spirio is a seasoned attorney, mediator, and collaborative divorce professional with over 39 years of experience. As a proud member of the LGBTQI+ community, she brings both legal depth and personal insight to her work—advocating for clients whose lives and families often fall outside the bounds of traditional legal systems.Concetta’s practice focuses on protecting relationships, rights, and resources—through divorce and family law, second-parent adoptions, domestic partnership agreements, estate planning, and real estate. She is a committed advocate for inclusive, accessible, and non-adversarial solutions that promote dignity, clarity, and long-term stability.
Teresa Calabrese is a mediator and collaborative lawyer serving the NYC Queer community. Through mediation and collaborative practice, Teresa helps individuals, couples and families resolve conflict, problem-solve and make decisions together. She focuses on issues pertaining to: relationship formation, including co-habitation agreements and pre-marital agreements; building families, including donor sperm agreements and co-parenting agreements; and dissolving relationships and marriages. Teresa also handles second parent adoption and judgment of parentage proceedings and provides basic estate planning services. Teresa has presented programs for the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation, the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals, the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York, and CUNY School of Law. Teresa has also participated in mediation and legal informational presentations for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Services Center.
CEs are always FREE for FDMC Members! Fee for Non-Members: $40.00
*Your first CE is free for non-members! If this is your first FDMC CE and you would like to register as a guest, email members@fdmcgny.org to register.
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The FMDC Continuing Education program is a non-credit professional development program. We do not offer CE or CLE credits unless explicitly indicated on the event listing.
FDMC programs are designed to provide peer support and education for our members and guests and are not intended to provide legal, financial, or tax advice.