Holly Wanzer is a founding attorney of Wanzer Edwards, P.C. where she focuses her practice in family law, including collaborative divorce, family mediation, parenting coordination, appeals and representation of children as a guardian ad litem.
Ms. Wanzer earned her Juris Doctor summa cum laude from the Indiana University Robert McKinney School of Law. She graduated magna cum laude from Ball State University, earning her Bachelor of Science degree in English and advertising.
Ms. Wanzer was the founding President of the Board of Directors for the Central Indiana Association of Collaborative Professionals, which provides innovative alternatives to litigating divorce and family law matters, with an emphasis on co-parenting and resolving cases without court intervention. She has presented numerous seminars regarding collaborative law including a two-day basic training for attorneys, mental health practitioners and financial professionals in interdisciplinary collaborative law, an educational teleseminar on Collaborative law for the National Business Institute called “Collaborative Law in Family Law Disputes”, and seminars on the Collaborative family law process for the ICLEF Masters Series program and Indiana State Bar Association’s Solo & Small Firm Conference. She authored the book Introduction to Collaborative Divorce, released by James Publishing in 2014.
Ms. Wanzer is a registered family mediator and trained parenting coordinator providing services to families facing the changing circumstances which accompany dissolution of marriage, custody and parenting time modifications, child support modifications and paternity determinations. Her commitment to the private resolution of family issues, the preservation of positive working relationships within families, and her calm demeanor and sensitivity in the face of emotional challenges make her the ideal choice as a mediator or parenting coordinator for family law matters. Ms. Wanzer is a frequent speaker and presenter on issues involving mediation and mediator ethics.
Ms. Wanzer serves as a guardian ad litem representing the interests of children in courts across central Indiana. She passionately advocates for the best interests of children while at the same time seeking to shield them from the need to personally participate in the legal process.
Ms. Wanzer has been selected as a Super Lawyer by Superlawyers Magazine from 2017-2024. She serves on the Women in Law committee of the Indiana State Bar Association where she has coordinated the Lady Justice program with Girl Scouts of Central Indiana. She teaches bar review courses to recent graduates through the Indianapolis Bar Association Bar Review Course. Ms. Wanzer is a past president of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation which she continues to support as a Distinguished Fellow and Life Fellow. She volunteers her time as a Guardian ad Litem in the Marion County Superior courts and with the Marion County Modest Means Mediation program.
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Shaming, Blaming, Scrolling and other Communication Crimes
You get a crummy, snarky email from your co-parent. You respond with an email the size of a small novel, which details all the ways that your co-parent has failed to be a reasonable, rational human in the last ten years. The next day you send an email asking whether your co-parent has the permission slip for this week’s field trip, and you get no reply. What now? Communication is tough for many co-parents. Ending a marriage or romantic relationship but remaining connected through your children provides many opportunities to exercise your hurt and anger against the other person, but [...]
Parenting a Grandchild
There are many reasons why a grandparent must begin providing primary care for a grandchild in place of a parent. Whatever the reason that a parent is unavailable to care for a child, a grandparent is likely a trusted family member known to the child, which makes a grandparent a good choice as a caregiver. If you find yourself needing to be the primary caregiver for a grandchild, it is important to take the right legal steps so that you can make important decisions for a child and take steps like registering a child for school or seeking medical care. [...]
My Teenager is Rejecting Me
Have you noticed how busy the tween and teen years get all of the sudden? Your child goes from a cute and playful child to a sometimes snarky, very involved adolescent. The good news is that this transition is pretty normal and happens in just about every family. But how do you handle this when parents are co-parenting from separate households? Trust me . . . every parent, regardless of whether in an intact family or not, finds these years one part exciting and one part exhausting. It can be easy to think that kids these days are way busier [...]
I Wish I Had Known . . .
If you are facing a divorce, it is likely that you are entering an unfamiliar process. You have seen television shows about divorce and known other people who got divorced but did not expect to be completing the process yourself. As you embark on this process which will impact your future, consider these pieces of advice from those who have been there about what they wish they would have known when they started their divorces. “It won’t happen overnight”: Robert heard from his attorney when he filed for divorce that Indiana has a waiting period of 60 days between [...]
