Family & Divorce Law
Family & Divorce Desk
Eighteen named sub-domains covering both sides of a matter that rarely stays in one lane — the divorce itself, what happens to the money, and what happens to the kids, often all moving at once.
Dissolution Procedure
The uncontested and contested paths from filing to a decree the court will actually enforce.
Custody & Parenting Determination
Legal custody, physical custody, and the residential schedule that governs the day-to-day.
Child Support Determination & Enforcement
The guideline math your state actually runs, and what happens when the payments stop.
Spousal Support & Modification
The factor test that sets the number — length of marriage, earning capacity, standard of living — and what changes it later.
Property Characterization & Distribution
Separate, marital, or mixed, and the doctrine that decides which one an asset actually is.
Marital Agreement Enforceability
Whether a prenup or postnup holds up against the disclosure and voluntariness standards courts test it against.
Retirement Division & QDRO Mechanics
Splitting a 401(k) or pension without triggering the tax event a bad order would create.
Post-Decree Enforcement
Contempt motions, arrears judgments, and income withholding when a final order gets ignored.
Jurisdiction & Forum Selection
Which state's court can hear the divorce and the custody case, under the home-state and residency rules that decide it.
Temporary Orders & Asset Preservation
Interim support, temporary custody, and orders that stop assets from moving while the case is pending.
Discovery & Forensic Investigation
Subpoenas, financial disclosures, and depositions that bring hidden or undervalued assets into the record.
Business Valuation
What a family business is worth for division, and how much of its goodwill is marital rather than personal.
Tax Structuring of Settlements
The after-tax value of each settlement piece — property, support, retirement accounts — so equal on paper is equal in fact.
Global Settlement Architecture
Support, property, and custody negotiated as one package, where a concession on one track buys movement on another.
Estate-Planning & Trust Coordination
Beneficiary designations, wills, and trusts that a divorce leaves pointing at the wrong person.
Bankruptcy & Support Dischargeability
Which divorce obligations survive a bankruptcy discharge and which do not.
Trial Advocacy & Appellate Preservation
Evidence, expert challenges, and objections at trial, made so the record supports an appeal.
Multi-State Practice & Professional Conduct
Admission, local-counsel, and conduct rules when a matter crosses state lines.