Family Law Lawyers

The family law attorney can assist you with legal matters in divorce, child support, child custody, mothers rights and fathers rights.

Family Law Practice

• Divorce
• Property
• Pre-Nuptial agreements
• Modification of custody
• Modification of support
• Division of assets
• Spousal support
• Child support
• Child custody
• Litigation

Divorce and Family Law Attorney

New York divorce issues including child custody, alimony, legal separations and support.

• Contempt of Court
• Dissolution of Marriage
• Parenting Plans
• Payment of Child Support
• Collaborative Family Law
• Domestic Violence Restraining Orders
• Child Custody
• Child Support

New York Family Law Institute

New York Divorce Attorneys that will simplify the complex family law problems and legal issues. Top New York family Law attorneys. Experienced staff and lawyers. Assist with palimony, separations, support and child custody.

Office Of The Family Law

• Explains establishing paternity
• Prepares Orders to establish, modify or terminate a child support, spousal support or health insurance order
• Referrals to the New York Family Court Services and County Child Support Services Department
• Prepares stipulations for those who agree to spousal support and child support
• Prepares answers to New York County Child Support Services Department complaints
• Prepares Orders After Hearing and Wage Assignment Orders in which child support, spousal support or health insurance are at issue in family law cases
• Mediates child support, spousal support and health insurance issues between the parties

New York Bar Association

Attorneys working in family law and including procedures, support, tax considerations, community property, and the legal and psychological aspects of child custody.

• Publishes an extensive newsletter
• Cosponsors an annual Family Law Symposium
• Child Custody Colloquium

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Marion T.D. Lewis, a matrimonial and family law attorney, examines the possible impact of the Court of Appeals ruling in Shindel -- holding that a man who had no biological link to a child but who was deceived by his paramour into thinking that he was the father, would be equitably estopped from denying paternity -- on same-sex couples.

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Spousal Support

Either spouse may be awarded spousal support. In determining the amount and duration of maintenance the court shall consider:

* The income and property of the respective parties including marital property distributed in the divorce.
* The duration of the marriage and the age and health of both parties.
* The present and future earning capacity of both parties.
* The ability of the party seeking maintenance to become self-supporting and, if applicable, the period of time and training necessary to become self-supporting.
* Reduced or lost lifetime earning capacity of the party seeking maintenance as a result of having foregone or delayed education, training, employment, or career opportunities during the marriage.
* The presence of children of the marriage in the respective homes of the parties.
* The tax consequences to each party.
* Contributions and services of the party seeking maintenance as a spouse, parent, wage earner and homemaker, and to the career or career potential of the other party.
* The wasteful dissipation of marital property by either spouse.
* Any transfer or encumbrance made in contemplation of a matrimonial action without fair consideration.
* Any other factor which the court shall expressly find to be just and proper.