Notice
No attorney-client relationship
Martelia “Marti” Crawford is a licensed Tennessee attorney. She is not offering services as an attorney through this website. The services described here — the parent educational seminar, Rule 31 family mediation and parenting coordination — are neutral roles. In each of them she acts for neither party.
Nothing on this website creates an attorney-client relationship between you and Marti Crawford or any firm with which she is associated. Nothing on this website is legal advice, and it should not be relied on as a substitute for advice from an attorney who represents you. Statutes and court rules are summarised here in plain language; the statute and the rule govern, not this summary.
Sending an enquiry through this website, registering for a seminar, or corresponding with this office does not make you a client and does not oblige this office to act. Do not send anything you regard as confidential through this website.
Her separate law practice, where she does represent clients, is at mtcrawford.com, (931) 528-8442. Those two practices are kept apart. She will not accept a neutral appointment in any matter connected to that practice, and a conflict check is run before any appointment is accepted.
No outcome is promised in any matter, and neither party will be favoured. This website is advertising material to the extent Tennessee law so treats it.
How this office corresponds with you
Each parent is mailed separately. Always.
Two people in conflict should not be able to learn each other's contact details from a scheduling email. This office never places both parents on the same message, in any field.
Every message is addressed to one party. No CC. No BCC of a message going to both. One parent's email address is never visible to the other.
Subject lines read “A message about your appointment.” No allegations, no recommendations, and no child's name appears in any outbound message. Documents are delivered through an authenticated portal link.
Where a protective order or a safety concern is noted on the record, automated mail to that party is suppressed entirely and contact is made manually, at an address or number the party has confirmed is safe.
A parent ordered to attend is not a subscriber. There is no newsletter, no follow-up offer and no satisfaction campaign. The only mailing list on this site is a professional one for attorneys who opt in.
Delivery receipts are retained per message, because a court may ask whether notice was given. A hard bounce on a party's address raises an alert and triggers a telephone call the same working day. A missed notice in a court-ordered process is never allowed to fail silently.
Notices, court correspondence and the professional list are sent from three separate authenticated subdomains, each with its own reputation and its own suppression handling, so a problem in one never affects notice to a party.
If you believe an email from this office reached the wrong person, or if your safe contact details change, telephone (931) 650-4058 rather than replying by email.