Nichols Family Solutions is a family mediation practice offering a cost-effective alternative to expensive litigation. Lucy offers families a way to keep important family decisions out of the adversarial system, allowing parties to resolve their own conflicts and create child-centered custody and parenting plans.

Working with an experienced mediator is helpful in reducing conflict and reaching agreements. Lucy helps her clients focus on positive resolutions, reaching agreements, and finding ways to move forward rather than staying stuck in their conflict. As a family lawyer, Lucy Nichols devoted her legal career to helping people through complex, high conflict child custody and divorce cases. Lucy has dedicated her career for 30 years to working with families in conflict first as a family lawyer and now exclusively working as a family mediator. She understands the emotional and financial devastation litigation has on families, the most significant being the short and long-term damage to the children.

Lucy is an experienced family mediator and mentor mediator, certified by the Virginia Supreme Court. She dedicates her practice to family mediation focusing on child custody and parenting plans, custody modification, child relocation, child support, conflicts arising in blending families, reconciling families, elder care mediation, parent-child conflict, parent and adult child conflict, same sex couple/family mediation, Christian Conciliation, and conflict resolution for separating and divorcing couples including division of property and spousal support.