[Torture]

Any recommendations for dealing with drainage? Contractors you've worked with - stuff to consider, etc?

Our backyard is a swimming pool of snow melt in the middle right now (which is a concrete pathway, which probably doesn't help) and the water's not going anywhere cause the yard is sloped kinda like this and pools in the middle... \_/ The one neighbour's yard is a bit higher too so it's more like

(neighbour) ________
...................my yard \____/


(oh yeah, look at that sweet drawing, that might even be to scale!)

In addition to the backyard, our side-yard/path slopes toward the house, as does the area between my garage and the neighbours.
Gutters seem to drain in dumb places too. (right on the pathway so that it ices up nicely this time of year...seriously, wtf, who does that?)