A Conflict Resolution and Professional Services Firm
MLT Resolutions helps individuals, families, and organizations navigate complex disputes and court-related matters. We provide mediation, professional supervised visitation, and educational services through distinct professional roles, with an emphasis on neutrality, structure, accountability, and practical resolution.
What We Do
Resolve Conflict
We provide mediation and conflict-resolution services for divorce, child custody, family, civil, business, probate, and military-family matters, including complex and high-conflict disputes where multiple legal, financial, relational, or family concerns may intersect.
Our approach is neutral, structured, and practical. We help parties identify the issues, separate competing concerns, clarify priorities, and address difficult disagreements in a process designed to support informed decision-making and workable resolution.
Whether the dispute is straightforward or deeply contested, we maintain clear professional boundaries while creating space for difficult issues to be addressed directly, thoughtfully, and productively.
Support Families
We provide professional supervised visitation tailored to the needs of the child, the court order, and the circumstances of each family. Visits may take place in appropriate community settings and include age-appropriate activities, provided the setting allows for consistent professional monitoring and compliance with the terms of supervision.
We serve a wide range of visitation matters, from straightforward court-ordered arrangements to complex and high-conflict cases involving restraining orders, significant parental conflict, and other safety concerns.
Our role is to observe, monitor, enforce boundaries, document when appropriate, and intervene when necessary, while maintaining neutrality and clear professional boundaries throughout the visitation process.
Develop / MLT Institute
We provide seminars, workshops, professional education, and community outreach designed to strengthen communication, decision-making, and conflict-management skills.
Our work helps individuals, professionals, and organizations better understand conflict, navigate difficult conversations, and respond to challenging situations with greater clarity, structure, and neutrality.
How We Help
Family Mediation
Helping families make difficult decisions with clarity and dignity.
MLT Resolutions provides mediation for family disputes involving separation, divorce, parenting, support, relocation, property, and related family matters.
Services may include: Divorce • Child Custody & Parenting Time • Move-Aways • Child & Spousal Support • Property & Financial Matters • Military Family Matters
Probate & Estate Mediation
Helping families resolve disputes involving estates, trusts, property, and family legacies.
We work with family members, beneficiaries, trustees, and other interested parties to address probate and estate-related disputes through a structured and neutral mediation process.
Services may include: Trusts • Estates • Beneficiary Disputes • Inherited Property • Guardianships • Conservatorships
Civil & Business Mediation
Practical resolution for disputes affecting business, work, property, and everyday life.
We provide mediation for individuals, professionals, and organizations facing civil, commercial, workplace, contractual, and other disputes.
Services may include: Business • Contracts • Workplace • Property • Landlord/Tenant • Neighbor & Other Civil Disputes
Professional Supervised Visitation
Neutral, structured support for court-ordered parent-child contact.
MLT Resolutions provides professional supervised visitation and monitored exchanges with careful attention to the court order, professional boundaries, safety requirements, and the needs of the children and families involved.
Services may include: Supervised Parenting Time • Monitored Exchanges • Court-Ordered Family Services
Professional Supervised Visitation
MLT Resolutions provides professional supervised visitation that supports meaningful parent-child contact while maintaining clear boundaries, consistent oversight, and full compliance with California court orders and applicable statewide standards for professional supervised visitation providers.
Visits may take place in appropriate community settings and may include age-appropriate activities, provided the setting allows for effective supervision and compliance with the court order.
Our approach is attentive, neutral, and professional. We observe, monitor, and enforce boundaries, document when appropriate, and intervene when necessary, all while keeping the parent-child interaction at the center of the visit.
Advisory & Workplace
MLT Resolutions works with organizations and professionals to address workplace conflict, communication challenges, and other organizational concerns. Our approach emphasizes early intervention, structured dialogue, and practical strategies designed to help organizations manage conflict before it becomes more disruptive.
Supporting Families Across Counties
Professional oversight with structure, neutrality, and care
Alameda County
Contra Costa County
San Mateo County
Solano County
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Michael Tarkington has over 20 years of legal experience and nearly a decade of mediation expertise. His professional experience includes supporting survivors of domestic violence, advocating for children, assisting military families, and working with individuals, families, and organizations navigating complex matters.
Drawing from his legal and mediation experience, Michael brings a structured, neutral, and practical approach to conflict resolution and professional services. His work emphasizes professionalism, confidentiality, clear communication, and thoughtful support for the individuals and organizations he serves.