Services

Navigating the formal process of dissolving a marriage requires meticulous attention to detail and strategic legal planning. Our service guides you through every stage, from the initial filing of the Application, negotiations, and the final decree. We ensure all legal requirements are met and advocate tirelessly to protect your rights regarding property division, debt allocation, and any potential issues involving children. We aim for a resolution that minimizes conflict and sets a clear, stable path for your future post-divorce.

A legally binding Separation Agreement is crucial for defining the rights and responsibilities of each spouse while living apart. This document comprehensively covers essential matters such as custody and visitation schedules, spousal support, child support obligations, and division of assets and debts. Our role is to draft a robust agreement that reflects your interests and provides stability and certainty, paving the way for an easier divorce finalization later on.

Establishing a Prenuptial Agreement provides clarity and financial security for both parties entering a marriage. We work closely with you to draft an enforceable agreement that clearly defines separate and marital property, manages potential future financial obligations like alimony, and protects family assets, trusts, and business interests. This proactive approach ensures that your financial intentions are formally documented, allowing you to enter your marriage with confidence and a transparent understanding of financial expectations.

In many complex family law matters, especially those involving contracts like separation or prenuptial agreements prepared by the opposing counsel, obtaining Independent Legal Advice (ILA) is mandatory. Our service offers a neutral, objective review of your document, ensuring you fully comprehend its legal implications, risks, and benefits before you sign. We ensure that your rights are protected and advise you on the fairness and enforceability of the terms.

We facilitate the resolution of disputes outside of the courtroom, offering efficient, confidential, and less confrontational alternatives to litigation. **Mediation** involves a neutral third party helping you and your spouse negotiate a mutual settlement. **Arbitration** is a private judicial process where an arbitrator hears both sides and issues a binding decision. We prepare you thoroughly for these sessions and represent your interests, leveraging these methods to achieve quicker, less expensive, and more tailored outcomes.

The welfare of children is always the paramount concern in any family law case. We effectively handle all disputes related to decision-making responsibility, residence, and parenting time schedules, always guided by the child's best interests. This practice area encompasses specialized planning for holidays, extracurricular activities, healthcare, and education. We provide compassionate yet firm legal advocacy to secure the optimal arrangements that promote the child's stability and a strong relationship with both parents.

These matters require immediate and highly specialized legal intervention, often involving international law, such as the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. We act swiftly to seek emergency court orders for the safe location and return of a child wrongfully removed or retained by a parent. Our experienced team coordinates with international authorities and provides urgent representation to ensure the prompt repatriation of the child according to established legal protocols.

Legal and physical custody are fundamental issues that determine where a child lives and who makes major decisions about their upbringing. We assist parents in establishing primary residence, joint custody, or sole custody arrangements. Our representation focuses on presenting evidence supporting your ability to provide a safe, stable, and nurturing environment. We work toward creating a detailed parenting plan that clearly defines roles and responsibilities, promoting the child's long-term well-being and security.

We are dedicated to ensuring that fathers receive full and equal protection under the law concerning their children. This involves vigorously advocating for fair custody and visitation schedules and ensuring fathers maintain a significant role in their children's lives. We address issues of legal parentage, challenge biased assumptions, and fight to secure parental access that serves the child’s best interest. Our goal is to empower fathers to maintain strong, meaningful, and consistent relationships with their children.

Establishing a reliable and workable visitation schedule is essential for maintaining the non-custodial parent's bond with the child. We negotiate or litigate to secure clear and consistent contact rights, ensuring the arrangements are practical, developmentally appropriate, and strictly enforced. This includes drafting specific schedules for holidays, summers, and long-distance visitation, providing the structure necessary for both parent and child to thrive outside of the primary custodial home.

When a custodial parent wishes to move a significant distance, potentially disrupting the existing custody or visitation order, complex legal permission is often required. We represent both relocating and non-relocating parents in these difficult cases. Our representation involves preparing necessary court applications, presenting evidence on how the move impacts the child, and negotiating adjusted visitation plans to preserve the relationship with the non-moving parent. This sensitive area demands detailed planning and strategic presentation.

Child support is a critical component of post-separation financial planning, intended to ensure the child's financial needs are consistently met. We calculate fair support obligations based on statutory guidelines, considering factors like parental income, childcare costs, health insurance premiums, and special needs. Whether you are seeking to establish, modify, or contest a support order, our service ensures that the final determination is accurate, legally compliant, and reflective of both parents' financial capacities.

When a court-ordered obligation for child support or spousal support is ignored or payments become delinquent, we take decisive legal action to enforce the order. This includes filing motions for contempt, seeking wage garnishments, placing liens on property, and pursuing other remedies available under law. We act swiftly to hold the non-compliant party accountable and recover overdue payments, ensuring financial stability is restored to the recipient and the children.

Parental alienation is a severe issue where one parent attempts to damage the child's relationship with the other parent through manipulative behavior. We understand the emotional complexity and legal challenge this presents. Our strategy involves gathering expert psychological evidence and pursuing court intervention to stop the harmful behavior, protect the targeted parent-child relationship, and, when necessary, request modifications to custody or visitation arrangements to prioritize the child's psychological well-being.

Also known as alimony or spousal maintenance, this financial arrangement provides support to one spouse after separation or divorce. We negotiate and litigate cases involving spousal support, focusing on determining entitlement, amount, and duration based on factors like the length of the marriage, career sacrifices, standard of living, and earning capacity of both parties. Our goal is to achieve a settlement that facilitates economic independence for the recipient while being fair and reasonable to the payer.

Dividing marital property and debts is often the most contentious aspect of a divorce. We provide tailored advice on the equitable distribution of all assets accumulated during the marriage, including real estate, bank accounts, investments, crypto, retirement plans, and business valuations. Our meticulous approach ensures a thorough inventory and appraisal of all holdings, securing a fair and legally sound distribution that protects your long-term financial stability and separate property interests.