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Attorney-Mediator · 1,000+ Matters Negotiated · Neutral · Confidential
Couples & Family Mediation in Bergen CountyHigh Incomes. High Pressure. Higher Stakes at Home.
Bergen County households carry some of the highest incomes — and highest carrying costs — in New Jersey. When two successful people disagree about money, parenting, or whose career bends next, the fights are sophisticated and so are the stakes. They deserve a mediator who has negotiated at that level for over a decade and a half.
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Your Mediator Has Closed 1,000+ Difficult Agreements
Santo V. Artusa Jr., J.D., C.A.M.T. spent 15+ years as a New Jersey attorney negotiating and mediating more than 1,000 matters where emotions ran high and the clock ran short — marital settlements, custody frameworks, financial disputes, deals that had to close by Friday. He knows how to move two intelligent, dug-in people from positions to terms. And he knows, from standing in courtrooms when talks collapsed, exactly what it looks like when a family reaches this stage and walks away without an agreement. Bergen County couples come to us so that never becomes their story.
Learn more about his background on the Executive Director page, or see the full service overview on our Couples & Family Mediation guide.
The Disputes We Resolve for Bergen County Couples
The classic Bergen County mediation: two demanding careers, a mortgage in Ridgewood or Tenafly, private activities for the kids, and a running argument about spending, saving, and who is carrying more of the load at home. Add strong-willed in-laws in Fort Lee or Paramus and holiday logistics across two extended families, and the same three fights repeat every month.
Mediation puts every one of those disputes on the table, hears each partner privately in confidential caucus, and closes with a written, signed household agreement — budget rules, division of labor, parenting terms, boundaries with family. Sessions are fully virtual, scheduled around commutes and travel, evenings and weekends included.
📌 Dual-income budget, spending, and financial-transparency agreements
🤝 Whose career leads: relocation, travel, and workload negotiations
🗂️ Private school, activities, and parenting-standard disputes
✍️ Extended-family boundaries and holiday division across two families
Where money fights have turned into shouting matches, pair the mediation with our Relationship Anger Management program — Bergen professionals appreciate handling both discreetly with one provider (full options in the Couples & Family Hub). Couples who have already had a close call should read our guide on domestic argument arrests in New Jersey — prevention is the entire point of acting now.
Bergen County Couples Ask Us
We both work long hours and travel. How do sessions fit our schedule?
This is exactly why Bergen County couples choose us. Sessions are 100% virtual, offered mornings, evenings, and weekends, seven days a week — and partners can join from two different locations, including mid-travel. No office visit, no lost half-day.
Our disputes are mostly financial. Is a mediator the right professional, or a financial planner?
When the issue is what to do with money, see a planner. When the issue is that you two cannot agree about money, that is a negotiation — and negotiation is what your mediator has done professionally more than 1,000 times. Many Bergen couples leave with a written financial-rules agreement a planner can then build on.
Is what we say in mediation confidential?
Yes. Mediation is a confidential process, and the private caucus sessions go further — what each partner shares one-on-one stays private unless you authorize it to be raised. For two professionals with reputations in the community, that discretion matters, and it is built into every session.
For the complete step-by-step process and package pricing, visit the Couples & Family Mediation overview.
SERVING ALL OF BERGEN COUNTY
Hackensack · Fort Lee · Paramus · Ridgewood · Englewood · Teaneck · Fair Lawn · Mahwah · Tenafly · Garfield — and every community in between. Virtual statewide.
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Bring in the negotiator with 1,000+ closed agreements before the same three fights cost you what they’ve cost other Bergen County households. The consultation is private, and it changes things.
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New Jersey Anger Management Group, LLC · 97 Newkirk Street, 2nd Floor, Jersey City, NJ 07306Santo serves as a neutral for both parties; mediation is not legal representation of either partner.
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