Natalie Marie Snyder

Natalie Snyder is a partner at Cross Glazier Reed Burroughs, PC, in Carmel, Indiana. Her practice is focused on family law, including domestic litigation and alternative dispute/peacemaking processes as well as working with high conflict families, personality disorders, families experiencing estrangement, hatred, parental alienation, domestic violence, parent-child contact problems/ reunification problems and parents and children suffering from trauma and PTSD.

She is certified as a specialist in family law by the Indiana Family Law Certification Board since 2009, is a trained collaborative practitioner and board member of Central Indiana Association of Collaborative Professionals, and is a trained parenting coordinator and family law mediator. In 2018 - 2024 she has been listed as a Super Lawyer in the area of family as published in Indianapolis Monthly. From 2012 - 2016, she has been listed as a Super Lawyers "Rising Star" in the area of family as published in Indianapolis Monthly. 

Natalie has a focus on collaborative law, which is a more respectful process where you have more control over the outcome of your family law matter. Collaborative law leads to better outcomes for your children through using a mental health professional and allows you the freedom to express yourself in your case. Collaborative law also allows you to solve problems around your asset division through cooperation between the clients and professionals and allows you to control the speed of the process.  

Ms. Snyder has lectured and written on various Indiana family law issues, including most recently helping children navigate divorce and blended families, how to deal with teenagers who are resisting parenting time and a relationship with an estranged parent, how to value intellectual property in divorce, and how to utilize trusts in your divorce. Ms. Snyder has represented medical, legal, accounting, and financial executives and partners, closely held business owners, family farms and farming corporations, Eli Lilly and IT executives, CPAs, attorneys, doctors, military employees and military contractors, federal government employees, professional athletes and spouses of these individuals. In addition to complex legal divisions of assets and debts, Natalie specializes in moderate, intermediate, and severe high conflict families and hatred families, including closed and open clinical evaluations and experts, addictions, personality disorders, reunification, enmeshment, alienation, and estrangement in families. Natalie also concentrates on how to use a child's voice in the mediation/ dispute resolution process.

Ms. Snyder is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association (family law section), past Board Member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, and she is the past Chair of the Family Law Section of the Indianapolis Bar Association and past House of Delegates Member for the Indiana State Bar Association. She is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation and a former volunteer for the Indianapolis Bar Foundation. She is a member of the National Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) and a former board member and the Past President of the Indiana Chapter of the AFCC. Ms. Snyder is also a Board member and Past President of the Central Indiana Association of Collaborative Professionals, member of Collaborative Solutions, and a member of the American Bar Association, Family Law Division. 

Ms. Snyder graduated from Indiana University School of Law, earning a J.D. in 2001. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors with a B.A. in communications/public relations and a minor in political science from Purdue University in 1998. She is also a graduate of the American Bar Association Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute, Indianapolis Bar Association Bar Leader Series III, the Indiana Trial Advocacy program and the Integrating Women Leaders leadership training program.

Ms. Snyder lives with her husband, who is employed by the Indianapolis Fire Department, and her daughter in Cicero, Indiana.

Cross Glazier Burroughs P.C., represents clients throughout Indiana in high-asset divorce and complicated child custody and parenting time cases, as well as all other types of related family law issues. The firm has a history of dealing effectively with complex cases and litigation in the areas of divorce, child custody, prenuptial agreements, postnuptial agreements, valuations of assets, parenting time guidelines and plans, child support, relocation, protective order matters, and appellate work. 

Ms. Snyder is particularly focused on developing peacemaking alternatives for families that are open or closed processes to help high conflict families and children, including collaborative law, parenting coordination, counseling alternatives, the use of open and closed parenting time and custody evaluations, dealing with alienation and enmeshment of children, justified rejection and reunification of parents and children,  parents with personality characteristics and disorders and drug and alcohol addiction in families to avoid systemic trauma and build resilience in children and parents, and to help families heal from trauma.