Susan L. Amato

Susan L. Amato


Amato Family Law, LLC

Recognized since 2007

Clayton, Missouri

Practice Areas

Collaborative Law: Family Law

Family Law Mediation

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Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2023 - Collaborative Law: Family Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2019 - Collaborative Law: Family Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2016 - Family Law Mediation Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2015 - Collaborative Law: Family Law
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Susan Amato is an experienced domestic relations attorney and mediator. Throughout her decades of practice in mediation, collaborative practice and litigation, she has made client satisfaction her first priority. She believes that when a couple enters a divorce process, it's important to support the parenting relationship, to preserve finances as much as possible and to work towards a successful post-divorce family system. This approach is the most positive and healthy way of addressing a very emotional and stressful time in your life.

Through her experience in marital and family law matters, Ms. Amato has represented hundreds of individuals in a wide variety of issues from simple to complex, relating to divorce, custody, domestic violence, and paternity mediation and litigation. She has an established reputation in dispute resolution with the focus of her practice on conflict resolution, particuarly mediation and collaborative law, and she offers these options to her clients as well as litigation.

Location
  • 230 South Bemiston Avenue, Suite 510
    Clayton, MO 63105
Education
  • Washington University in St. Louis, J.D., graduated 1983
  • St. Lawrence University, graduated 1980
  • Washington University in St. Louis, graduated 1983
Bar Admissions
  • Missouri, 1983
Affiliations
  • Missouri Bar - member
  • Association of Missouri Mediators - Board Member
  • AFCC - local planning committee member
  • Association of Conflict Resolution - Family Section Advanced Practitioner Member
  • Collaborative Family Law Association - Founding President

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2023 - Collaborative Law: Family Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2019 - Collaborative Law: Family Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2016 - Family Law Mediation Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2015 - Collaborative Law: Family Law
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Collaborative Law: Family Law, St. Louis (2023)
  • Collaborative Law: Family Law, St. Louis (2019)
  • Family Law Mediation, St. Louis (2016)
  • Collaborative Law: Family Law, St. Louis (2015)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Collaborative Law: Family Law
  • Family Law Mediation
Awards:
  • Missouri Lawyer's Media 2009 Women in the Law Citizenship Award

Publications

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